The Chinese and opium under the Republic : worse than floods and wild beasts / / Alan Baumler
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| Autore: |
Baumler Alan <1965->
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| Titolo: |
The Chinese and opium under the Republic : worse than floods and wild beasts / / Alan Baumler
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| Pubblicazione: | Albany, NY, : State University of New York Press, c2007 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (312 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 363.45095109041 |
| Soggetto topico: | Opium trade - China |
| Drug traffic - China | |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The Chinese and opium under the Republic |
| ISBN: | 9780791480755 |
| 0791480755 | |
| 9781429463768 | |
| 1429463767 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910963382903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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