The Chinese and Opium Under the Republic
Subtitle: Worse Than Floods and Wild Beasts
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: January 25, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9780791469538
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history; History; History - General History; History: World; China; Asia - China; General; Substance Abuse & Addictions - Drug Dependence; International Relations - General; Opium trade
Description: "In this book, Alan Baumler examines how Chinese reformers convinced the people and the state that eliminating opium was one of the crucial tasks facing the new Chinese nation. He analyzes the process by which the government borrowed international models of drug control and modern ideas of citizenship and combined them into a program, that successfully transformed opium from a major part of China's political economy to an ordinary social problem."--BOOK JACKET.