Opium regimes
Subtitle: China, Britain, and Japan, 1839-1952
By: edited by Timothy Brook and Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi.
Contributors: Brook, Timothy, 1951-; Wakabayashi, Bob Tadashi, 1950-
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 444
Subjects: Opium trade -- China -- History; Drug traffic -- China -- History; Drug control -- China -- History; China -- Relations -- Great Britain; Great Britain -- Relations -- China; China -- Relations -- Japan; Japan -- Relations -- China
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 405-429) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Opium's history in China / Timothy Brook and Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi; title: Opium for China : the British connection / Gregory Blue; title: From peril to profit : opium in late-Edo to Meiji eyes / Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi; title: Drugs, taxes, and Chinese capitalism in Southeast Asia / Carl A. Trocki; title: The Hong Kong opium revenue, 1845-1885 / Christopher Munn; title: Opium in Xinjiang and beyond / David Bello; title: Drug operations by resident Japanese in Tianjin / Motohiro Kobayashi; title: Opium/leisure/Shanghai : urban economies of consumption / Alexander Des Forges; title: Opium and modern Chinese state-making / R. Bin Wong; title: Opium and the state in late-Qing Sichuan / Judith Wyman; title: Poppies, patriotism, and the public sphere : nationalism and state leadership in the anti-opium crusade in Fujian, 1906-1916 / Joyce A. Madancy; title: The National Anti-Opium Association and the Guomindang state, 1924-1937 / Edward R. Slack Jr.; title: Opium control versus opium suppression : the origins of the 1935 six-year plan to eliminate opium and drugs / Alan Baumler; title: The responses of opium growers to eradication campaigns and the poppy tax, 1907-1949 / Lucien Bianco; title: Opium and collaboration in Central China, 1938-1940 / Timothy Brook; title: An opium tug-of-war : Japan versus the Wang Jingwei regime / Motohiro Kobayashi; title: Resistance to opium as a social evil in wartime China / Mark S. Eykholt; title: Nationalism, identity, and state-building : the antidrug crusade in the People's Republic, 1949-1952 / Zhou Yongming.