Opium Regimes

Opium Regimes
Title Opium Regimes PDF eBook
Author Timothy Brook
Publisher Univ of California Press
Pages 470
Release 2000-09-18
Genre History
ISBN 9780520222366

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Opium Regimes draws on a range of research to show that the opium trade was not purely a British operation, but involved Chinese merchants and state agents, and Japanese imperial agents as well.

Opium Regimes

Opium Regimes
Title Opium Regimes PDF eBook
Author Timothy Brook
Publisher
Pages 444
Release 2000-08-30
Genre History
ISBN 9780756783433

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Papers presented at a conference on the history of opium in East Asia. Includes: Opium for China: The British Connection; Opium in Late-Edo to Meiji Eyes; Drugs, Taxes, & Chinese Capitalism in SE Asia; The Hong Kong Opium Revenue, 1845-1885; Drug Oper. by Resident Japanese in Tianjin; Opium/Leisure/Shanghai: Urban Economies of Consumption; The National Anti-Opium Assoc. & the Guomindang State, 1924-1937; Opium Control vs. Opium Suppression; The Responses of Opium Growers to Eradication Campaigns & the Poppy Tax, 1907-1949; Opium & Collaboration in Central China, 1938-1940; Japan vs. the Wang Jingwei Regime; Resistance to Opium as a Social Evil in Wartime China; & The Anti-drug Crusade in the People's Rep., 1949-1951; etc.

Empires of Vice

Empires of Vice
Title Empires of Vice PDF eBook
Author Diana S. Kim
Publisher Princeton University Press
Pages 330
Release 2021-08-10
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 0691199701

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A Shared Turn : Opium and the Rise of Prohibition -- The Different Lives of Southeast Asia's Opium Monopolies -- "Morally Wrecked" in British Burma, 1870s-1890s -- Fiscal Dependency in British Malaya, 1890s-1920s -- Disastrous Abundance in French Indochina, 1920s-1940s -- Colonial Legacies.

Opium, State, and Society

Opium, State, and Society
Title Opium, State, and Society PDF eBook
Author Edward R. Slack
Publisher University of Hawaii Press
Pages 256
Release 2000-10-01
Genre History
ISBN 0824863798

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Surprisingly little has been written about the complicated relationship between opium and China and its people. Opium, State, and Society goes a long way toward illuminating this relationship in the Republican period, when all levels of Chinese society--from peasants to school teachers, merchants, warlords, and ministers of finance--were physically or economically dependent on the drug. The centerpiece of this study is an investigation of the symbiotic relationship that evolved between opium and the Guomindang's rise to power in the years 1924-1937. Despite attempts to find other sources of revenue, the Guomindang became increasingly addicted to the tax monies derived from the drug trade prior to the war with Japan. Based solidly on a previously untapped reservoir of archival sources from the People's Republic and Taiwan, this work critically analyzes the complex realities of a government policy that vacillated between prohibition and legalization, and ultimately sought to curtail the cultivation, sale, and consumption of opium through a government monopoly.

The Social Life of Opium in China

The Social Life of Opium in China
Title The Social Life of Opium in China PDF eBook
Author Yangwen Zheng
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 268
Release 2005-09-08
Genre History
ISBN 9780521846080

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A State Built on Sand

A State Built on Sand
Title A State Built on Sand PDF eBook
Author David Mansfield
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 418
Release 2016-05-01
Genre Political Science
ISBN 0190694602

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Oscillations in opium poppy production in Afghanistan have long been associated with how the state was perceived, such as after the Taliban imposed a cultivation ban in 2000-1. The international community's subsequent attempts to regulate opium poppy became intimately linked with its own state-building project, and rising levels of cultivation were cited as evidence of failure by those international donors who spearheaded development in poppy-growing provinces like Helmand, Nangarhar and Kandahar. Mansfield's book examines why drug control - particularly opium bans - have been imposed in Afghanistan; he documents the actors involved; and he scrutinizes how prohibition served divergent and competing interests. Drawing on almost two decades of fieldwork in rural areas, he explains how these bans affected farming communities, and how prohibition endured in some areas while in others opium production bans undermined livelihoods and destabilized the political order, fuelling violence and rural rebellion. Above all this book challenges how we have come to understand political power in rural Afghanistan. Far from being the passive recipients of violence by state and non-state actors, Mansfield highlights the role that rural communities have played in shaping the political terrain, including establishing the conditions under which they could persist with opium production.

History of the Opium Problem

History of the Opium Problem
Title History of the Opium Problem PDF eBook
Author Hans Derks
Publisher BRILL
Pages 851
Release 2012-04-18
Genre Social Science
ISBN 9004221581

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Covering a period of about four centuries, this book demonstrates the economic and political components of the opium problem. As a mass product, opium was introduced in India and Indonesia by the Dutch in the 17th century. China suffered the most, but was also the first to get rid of the opium problem around 1950.