Opium Regimes

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 powerful mechanism for concentrating and transferring wealth and power between nations, and the anchor for 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.

Together these essays show that 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.

Timothy Brook is Professor of History at the University of Toronto and the author most recently of the prizewinning The Confusions of Pleasure: Commerce and Culture in Ming China (California, 1998). Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi is Professor of History at York University in Toronto and the author of Japanese Loyalism Reconstrued (1995), among other works.

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Introduction: Opium's History in China
Timothy Brook and Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi 
PART ONE • THE INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT
1. Opium for China: The British Connection
Gregory Blue 
2. From Peril to Profit: Opium in Late-Edo to Meiji Eyes
Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi 
PART TWO • DISTRIBUTION AND CONSUMPTION
3· Drugs, Taxes, and Chinese Capitalism in Southeast Asia
Carl A. Trocki 
4· The Hong Kong Opium Revenue, 1845-1885
Christopher Munn 
5· Opium in Xinjiang and Beyond
David Bello 
6. Drug Operations by Resident japanese in Tianjin
Motohiro Kobayashi 
7· Opium/Leisure/Shanghai: Urban Economies of Consumption
Alexander Des Forges 
PART THREE • CONTROL AND RESISTANCE
8. Opium and Modern Chinese State-Making
R. Bin Wong 
9· Opium and the State in Late-Qing Sichuan
judith Wyman 
10. Poppies, Patriotism, and the Public Sphere: Nationalism and State
Leadership in the Anti-Opium Crusade in Fujian, 1906-1916
Joyce A. Madanry 
1 1. The National Anti-Opium Association and the Guomindang State, 1924-1937
Edward R. Slack Jr. 
12. Opium Control versus Opium Suppression: The Origins of the 1935 Six-Year Plan to Eliminate Opium and Drugs
Alan Baumler 
13. The Responses of Opium Growers to Eradication
Campaigns and the Poppy Tax, 1907-1949
Lucien Bianco
PART FOUR • CRISIS AND RESOLUTION
14. Opium and Collaboration in Central China, 1938-1940
Timothy Brook 
15. An Opium Tug-of-War: Japan versus the Wang Jingwei Regime
Motohiro Kobayashi 
16. Resistance to Opium as a Social Evil in Wartime China
Mark S. Eykholt 
17. Nationalism, Identity, and State-Building:The Antidrug Crusade in the People's Republic, 1949-1952
Zhou Yongming 
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CONTRIBUTORS 
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