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Author : Timothy Brook
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 43,64 MB
Release : 2000-09-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520222366
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.
Author : Timothy Brook
Publisher :
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 37,75 MB
Release : 2000-08-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780756783433
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.
Author : Diana S. Kim
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 46,88 MB
Release : 2021-08-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0691199701
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.
Author : Edward R. Slack
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,44 MB
Release : 2000-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0824863798
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.
Author : Yangwen Zheng
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 17,88 MB
Release : 2005-09-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521846080
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Author : David Mansfield
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 12,27 MB
Release : 2016-05-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0190694602
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.
Author : Hans Derks
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 851 pages
File Size : 30,5 MB
Release : 2012-04-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9004221581
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.
Author : Robert Montgomery Martin
Publisher :
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 18,53 MB
Release : 1847
Category : China
ISBN :
Author : John M. Jennings
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 19,18 MB
Release : 1997-04-22
Category : History
ISBN :
The International Military Tribunal for the Far East (IMTFE) found Japan guilty of deliberately promoting drug abuse as a weapon to further its imperialistic aims in Asia. This study provides the historical context behind the IMTFE's findings from the annexation of Taiwan in 1895 to the end of World War II. Given the extent to which drug use permeated the politics, economy, and culture of Asia, it was inevitable that Japan's rise as an imperial power would lead to contact with, and increasing involvement in, the opium and narcotics trade. This study argues that the nature of that involvement should be understood not simply in terms of a conspiracy to drug the people of Asia into submission, but rather as indicative of the general twists and turns of Japanese imperialism. Thus, opium and narcotics emerge not so much as a weapon of, but rather as a metaphor for, Japanese imperialism in Asia.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations. Subcommittee on the International Opium Protocol
Publisher :
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 50,78 MB
Release : 1954
Category : Opium
ISBN :
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