The Chinese and opium under the Republic : worse than floods and wild beasts / Alan Baumler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baumler, Alan, 1965-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Opium trade--China.

Opium trade.

Drug traffic--China.

Drug traffic.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (312 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Examines China's attempts to control the opium economy in the early twentieth century.

Contents:

Intro

The Chinese and Opium under the Republic

Contents

List of Figures and Tables

Acknowledgments

Introduction. Worse Than Floods and Wild Beasts: Opium, Politics, and Society in Republican China

1. Establishing a Meaning for Opium

2. The Narrative of Addiction in China and the West

3. The International Campaign against Opium

4. Warlords and Opium

5. Opium, the Nation,and the Revolution

6. Hankou, the Anti-Opium Inspectorate, and Control of the Opium Trade

7.Purifying the People andDefending the State: The Six Year Plan to Eliminate Opium

8. Defining Drugs

9. War, Poppies, and the Completion of the Plan

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-294) and index.

ISBN:

9780791480755

0791480755

9781429463768

1429463767

OCLC:

123234077