03641nam 22006974a 450 991082914190332120241028173013.00-520-92449-51-59734-785-X10.1525/9780520924499(PPN)257779418(CKB)111090425025884(EBL)223400(OCoLC)475927903(SSID)ssj0000215428(PQKBManifestationID)11202411(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000215428(PQKBWorkID)10184757(PQKB)11633407(StDuBDS)EDZ0000055956(MiAaPQ)EBC223400(DE-B1597)649008(DE-B1597)9780520924499(EXLCZ)9911109042502588419990601d2000 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrOpium regimes China, Britain, and Japan, 1839-1952 /edited by Timothy Brook and Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi1st ed.Berkeley University of California Pressc20001 online resource (459 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-520-22009-9 Includes bibliographical references (p. 405-429) and index.ILLUSTRATIONS AND TABLES; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; INTRODUCTION: Opium's History in China; 1. Opium for China: The British Connection; 2. From Peril to Profit: Opium in Late-Edo to Meiji Eyes; 3. Drugs, Taxes, and Chinese Capitalism in Southeast Asia; 4. The Hong Kong Opium Revenue, 1845-1885; 5. Opium in Xinjiang and Beyond; 6. .Drug Operations by Resident Japanese in Tianjin; 7. Opium/Leisure/Shanghai: Urban Economies of Consumption; 8. Opium and Modern Chinese State-Making; 9. Opium and the State in Late-Qing Sichuan10. Poppies, Patriotism, and the Public Sphere: Nationalism and State Leadership in the Anti-Opium Crusade in Fujian, 1906-191611. The National Anti-Opium Association and the Guomindang State, 1924-1937; 12. Opium Control versus Opium Suppression: The Origins of the 1935 Six-Year Plan to Eliminate Opium and Drugs; 13. The Responses of Opium Growers to Eradication Campaigns and the Poppy Tax, 1907-1949; 14. Opium and Collaboration in Central China, 1938-1940; 15. An Opium Tug-of-War Japan versus the Wang Jingwei Regime; 16. Resistance to Opium as a Social Evil in Wartime China17. Nationalism, Identity, and State-Building: The Antidrug Crusade in the People's Republic, 1949-1952BIBLIOGRAPHY; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEXOpium is more than just a drug extracted from poppies. Over the past two centuries it has been a palliative medicine, an addictive substance, a powerful mechanism for concentrating and transferring wealth and power between nations, and the anchor for a now vanished sociocultural world in and around China.Opium tradeChinaHistoryDrug trafficChinaHistoryDrug controlChinaHistoryChinaRelationsGreat BritainGreat BritainRelationsChinaChinaRelationsJapanJapanRelationsChinaOpium tradeHistory.Drug trafficHistory.Drug controlHistory.363.45/0951Brook Timothy1951-979835Wakabayashi Bob Tadashi1950-1756851MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910829141903321Opium regimes4194380UNINA