Opium Regimes

This collection of essays reexamines the role of opium throughout East Asia's history and in doing so establishes the topic as a major new subfield through which scholars and students can approach the complex effects of opium on history and modernization.

Illustrations and Tables

ix

Acknowledgments

xi

Abbreviations

xiii

Introduction: Opium's History in China

I

Timothy Brook

Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi

PART ONE THE INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT

Opium for China: The British Connection

31

(24)

Gregory Blue

From Peril to Profit: Opium in Late-Edo to Meiji Eyes

55

(24)

Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi

PART TWO DISTRIBUTION AND CONSUMPTION

Drugs, Taxes, and Chinese Capitalism in Southeast Asia

79

(26)

Carl A. Trocki

The Hong Kong Opium Revenue, 1845--1885

105

(22)

Christopher Munn

Opium in Xinjiang and Beyond

127

(25)

David Bello

Drug Operations by Resident Japanese in Tianjin

152

(15)

Motohiro Kobayashi

Opium / Leisure / Shanghai: Urban Economies of Consumption

167

(22)

Alexander Des Forges

PART THREE CONTROL AND RESISTANCE

Opium and Modern Chinese State-Making

189

(23)

R. Bin Wong

Opium and the State in Late-Qing Sichuan

212

(16)

Judith Wyman

Poppies, Patriotism, and the Public Sphere: Nationalism and State Leadership in the Anti-Opium Crusade in Fujian, 1996--1916

228

(20)

Joyce A. Madancy

The National Anti-Opium Association and the Guomindang State, 1924--1937

248

(22)

Edward R. Slack Jr.

Opium Control versus Opium Suppression: The Origins of the 1935 Six-Year Plan to Eliminate Opium and Drugs

270

(22)

Alan Baumler

The Responses of Opium Growers to Eradication Campaigns and the Poppy Tax, 1907--1949

292

(31)

Lucien Bianco

PART FOUR CRISIS AND RESOLUTION

Opium and Collaboration in Central China, 1938--1940

323

(21)

Timothy Brook

An Opium Tug-of-War: Japan versus the Wang Jingwei Regime

344

(16)

Motohiro Kobayashi

Resistance to Opium as a Social Evil in Wartime China

360

(20)

Mark S. Eykholt

Nationalism, Identity, and State-Building: The Antidrug Crusade in the People's Republic, 1949--1952

380

(25)

Zhou Yongming

Bibliography

405

(26)

Contributors

431

(2)

Index

433

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