The troublesome legacy of Commissioner Lin
Subtitle: the opium trade and opium suppression in Fujian Province, 1820s to 1920s
By: Joyce A. Madancy.
Series: Harvard East Asian monographs -- 227
Publisher: Harvard University Asia Center; Distributed by Harvard University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 430
Subjects: Lin, Zexu, -- 1785-1850; Opium trade -- China -- Fujian Sheng -- History; Opium abuse -- China -- Fujian Sheng -- Prevention -- History; Drug control -- China -- Fujian Sheng -- History
Other titles: Opium trade and opium suppression in Fujian Province, 1820s to 1920s
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [397]-417) and index.
Table of contents: title: Commerce, compulsion, and control; title: Constructing Fujian's opium economy, 1820s-1906; title: Ambitious interlude, 1906-1910; title: Provincial patterns of reform before the Revolution of 1911; title: Tartars, treaties, and turmoil; title: Opium reform under the Republic, 1912-1914; title: Race, religion, and reform; title: Huang Lian's revolt and the politics of Prohibition; title: The collapse of the crusade, 1914-1927.