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Book SynopsisOpium is more than just a drug extracted from poppies. This title shows that the opium trade was not purely a British operation but involved Chinese merchants, Chinese state agents, and Japanese imperialists as well.
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Introduction: Opium's History in China
Timothy Brook and Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi
PART ONE • THE INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT
1. Opium for China: The British Connection
Gregory Blue
2. From Peril to Profit: Opium in Late-Edo to Meiji Eyes
Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi
PART TWO • DISTRIBUTION AND CONSUMPTION
3· Drugs, Taxes, and Chinese Capitalism in Southeast Asia
Carl A. Trocki
4· The Hong Kong Opium Revenue, 1845-1885
Christopher Munn
5· Opium in Xinjiang and Beyond
David Bello
6. Drug Operations by Resident japanese in Tianjin
Motohiro Kobayashi
7· Opium/Leisure/Shanghai: Urban Economies of Consumption
Alexander Des Forges
PART THREE • CONTROL AND RESISTANCE
8. Opium and Modern Chinese State-Making
R. Bin Wong
9· Opium and the State in Late-Qing Sichuan
judith Wyman
10. Poppies, Patriotism, and the Public Sphere: Nationalism and State
Leadership in the Anti-Opium Crusade in Fujian, 1906-1916
Joyce A. Madanry
1 1. The National Anti-Opium Association and the Guomindang State, 1924-1937
Edward R. Slack Jr.
12. Opium Control versus Opium Suppression: The Origins of the 1935 Six-Year Plan to Eliminate Opium and Drugs
Alan Baumler
13. The Responses of Opium Growers to Eradication
Campaigns and the Poppy Tax, 1907-1949
Lucien Bianco
PART FOUR • CRISIS AND RESOLUTION
14. Opium and Collaboration in Central China, 1938-1940
Timothy Brook
15. An Opium Tug-of-War: Japan versus the Wang Jingwei Regime
Motohiro Kobayashi
16. Resistance to Opium as a Social Evil in Wartime China
Mark S. Eykholt
17. Nationalism, Identity, and State-Building:The Antidrug Crusade in the People's Republic, 1949-1952
Zhou Yongming
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