Opium Regimes : China, Britain, and Japan, 1839-1952.
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Opium Regimes : China, Britain, and Japan, 1839-1952.
Yazar:
Brook, Timothy.
ISBN:
9780520924499
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Basım Bilgisi:
1st ed.
Fiziksel Tanımlama:
1 online resource (459 pages)
İçerik:
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, 1906-1916 -- 11. 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, 1949-1952 -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX.
Özet:
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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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