Opium Regimes: China, Britain, and Japan, 1839-1952 Paperback - 2000
by Timothy Brook (Editor); Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi (Editor)
First line
Opium in Chinese history is a large subject, as Jonathan Spence has observed.
From the rear cover
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 high-value commodity, a powerful mechanism for concentrating and transferring wealth and power between nations, and the anchor of 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.
Avoiding the Eurocentric focus of earlier approaches, this volume relies on the concept of "opium regimes" in Asia -- the regional and local systems that states, corporations, and civic associations set up either to profit from or suppress the opium trade. By focusing on these opium regimes, the authors are able to investigate the systematic and comprehensive character of drug-control structures, stressing their capacity for operating in the political realm. 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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- Title Opium Regimes: China, Britain, and Japan, 1839-1952
- Author Timothy Brook (Editor); Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi (Editor)
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Second Edition
- Pages 458
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of California Press, Ewing, New Jersey, U.S.A.
- Date 2000-09-18
- Features Bibliography, Index
- ISBN 9780520222366 / 0520222369
- Weight 1.67 lbs (0.76 kg)
- Dimensions 9.02 x 6.12 x 1.28 in (22.91 x 15.54 x 3.25 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Opium trade - China - History, China - Relations - Japan
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 99035149
- Dewey Decimal Code 363.450
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