Opium Regimes [[electronic resource] ] : China, Britain, and Japan, 1839-1952

• Autore: Brook Timothy <1951->
• Pubblicazione: Berkeley, [Calif.] ; ; London, : University of California Press, c2000
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (459 p.)
• Disciplina: 363.45/0951; 382.413750951
• Soggetto topico: Drug control; Drug traffic; Drug traffic - China - History; Narcotics, Control of - China - History; Opium trade; Opium trade-- China-- History
• Soggetto geografico: China Relations Great Britain; Great Britain Relations China; China Relations Japan; Japan Relations China
• Altri autori: WakabayashiBob Tadashi
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 Sichuan ; 10. 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 China ; 17. Nationalism, Identity, and State-Building: The Antidrug Crusade in the People's Republic, 1949-1952BIBLIOGRAPHY; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX
• Sommario/riassunto: Opium 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Opium Regimes
• ISBN: 0-520-92449-5; 1-59734-785-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910829141903321
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