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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808060903321

Autore

Baumler Alan <1965->

Titolo

The Chinese and opium under the Republic : worse than floods and wild beasts / / Alan Baumler

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, NY, : State University of New York Press, c2007

ISBN

0-7914-8075-5

1-4294-6376-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (312 p.)

Disciplina

363.45095109041

Soggetti

Opium trade - China

Drug traffic - China

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-294) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- The Chinese and Opium under the Republic -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Worse Than Floods and Wild Beasts: Opium, Politics, and Society in Republican China -- 1. Establishing a Meaning for Opium -- 2. The Narrative of Addiction in China and the West -- 3. The International Campaign against Opium -- 4. Warlords and Opium -- 5. Opium, the Nation,and the Revolution -- 6. Hankou, the Anti-Opium Inspectorate, and Control of the Opium Trade -- 7.Purifying the People andDefending the State: The Six Year Plan to Eliminate Opium -- 8. Defining Drugs -- 9. War, Poppies, and the Completion of the Plan -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.

Sommario/riassunto

Examines China's attempts to control the opium economy in the early twentieth century.