Opium Regimes

China, Britain, and Japan, 1839-1952

By: Timothy Brook (Editor), Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi (Editor)

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Paperback | 18 September 2000 | Edition Number 1

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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. Opium Regimes integrates the pioneering research of sixteen scholars to show that the opium trade was not purely a British operation but involved Chinese merchants, Chinese state agents, and Japanese imperialists as well. The book presents a coherent historical arc that moves from British imperialism in the nineteenth century, to Chinese capital formation and state making at the turn of the century, to Japanese imperialism through the 1930s and 1940s, and finally to the apparent resolution of China's opium problem in the early 1950s.

Together these essays show that the complex interweaving of commodity trading, addiction, and state intervention in opium's history refigured the historical face of East Asia more profoundly than any other commodity.

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"A dense volume, faultlessly edited and with a remarkable bibliography--in short, a reference work on the state of research in an area the scope of which is in constant expansion. In Opium Regimes can be found both the results and, conversely, the weaknesses of the history of opium in Asia."--China Perspectives

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Illustrations and Tables
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction: Opium's History in China	p. 1
The International Context
Opium for China: The British Connection	p. 31
From Peril to Profit: Opium in Late-Edo to Meiji Eyes	p. 55
Distribution and Consumption
Drugs, Taxes, and Chinese Capitalism in Southeast Asia	p. 79
The Hong Kong Opium Revenue, 1845-1885	p. 105
Opium in Xinjiang and Beyond	p. 127
Drug Operations by Resident Japanese in Tianjin	p. 152
Opium / Leisure / Shanghai: Urban Economies of Consumption	p. 167
Control and Resistance
Opium and Modern Chinese State-Making	p. 189
Opium and the State in Late-Qing Sichuan	p. 212
Poppies, Patriotism, and the Public Sphere: Nationalism and State Leadership in the Anti-Opium Crusade in Fujian, 1906-1916	p. 228
The National Anti-Opium Association and the Guomindang State, 1924-1937	p. 248
Opium Control versus Opium Suppression: The Origins of the 1935 Six-Year Plan to Eliminate Opium and Drugs	p. 270
The Responses of Opium Growers to Eradication Campaigns and the Poppy Tax, 1907-1949	p. 292
Crisis and Resolution
Opium and Collaboration in Central China, 1938-1940	p. 323
An Opium Tug-of-War: Japan versus the Wang Jingwei Regime	p. 344
Resistance to Opium as a Social Evil in Wartime China	p. 360
Nationalism, Identity, and State-Building: The Antidrug Crusade in the People's Republic, 1949-1952	p. 380
Bibliography	p. 405
Contributors	p. 431
Index	p. 433
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