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Table of Contents:

• Introduction : Opium's history in China / Timothy Brook and Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi
• Opium for China : the British connection / Gregory Blue
• From peril to profit : opium in late-Edo to Meiji eyes / Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi
• Drugs, taxes, and Chinese capitalism in Southeast Asia / Carl A. Trocki
• The Hong Kong opium revenue, 1845-1885 / Christopher Munn
• Opium in Xinjiang and beyond / David Bello
• Drug operations by resident Japanese in Tianjin / Motohiro Kobayashi
• Opium/leisure/Shanghai : urban economies of consumption / Alexander Des Forges
• Opium and modern Chinese state-making / R. Bin Wong
• Opium and the state in late-Qing Sichuan / Judith Wyman
• Poppies, patriotism, and the public sphere : nationalism and state leadership in the anti-opium crusade in Fujian, 1906-1916 / Joyce A. Madancy
• The National Anti-Opium Association and the Guomindang state, 1924-1937 / Edward R. Slack Jr.
• Opium control versus opium suppression : the origins of the 1935 six-year plan to eliminate opium and drugs / Alan Baumler
• The responses of opium growers to eradication campaigns and the poppy tax, 1907-1949 / Lucien Bianco
• Opium and collaboration in Central China, 1938-1940 / Timothy Brook
• An opium tug-of-war : Japan versus the Wang Jingwei regime / Motohiro Kobayashi
• Resistance to opium as a social evil in wartime China / Mark S. Eykholt
• Nationalism, identity, and state-building : the antidrug crusade in the People's Republic, 1949-1952 / Zhou Yongming.

Contributors:

Brook, Timothy, 1951-

Wakabayashi, Bob Tadashi, 1950-

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Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Subjects:

Opium trade — China — History

Drug traffic — China — History

Drug control — China — History

China — Relations — Great Britain

Great Britain — Relations — China

China — Relations — Japan

Japan — Relations — China

Opium trade

Drug traffic

Drug control

Relations

China

Great Britain

Japan

Genres:

History

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 405-429) and index.
Electronic reproduction. Boulder, Colo. : NetLibrary, 2004. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to NetLibrary affiliated libraries.

Physical Description:

xiv, 444 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

HV5840.C6 O65 2000eb

ISBNs:

1417523301 (electronic bk.)

OCLC Numbers:

1053028169
55892321 [Invalid]