Opium and the Limits of Empire Drug Prohibition in the Chinese Interior, 1729-1850

Name: Opium and the Limits of Empire Drug Prohibition in the Chinese Interior, 1729-1850
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ISBN: 9780674016491

ISBN-10: 0674016491

ISBN-13: 9780674016491

Edition: 2005

Authors: David Anthony Bello

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The British opium trade along China's seacoast has come to symbolize China's century-long descent into political and social chaos. In the standard historical narrative, opium is the primary medium through which China encountered the economic, social, and political institutions of the West. Opium, however, was not a Sino-British problem confined to southeastern China. It was, rather, an empire-wide crisis, and its spread among an ethnically diverse populace created regionally and culturally distinct problems of control for the Qing state. This book examines the crisis from the perspective of Qing prohibition efforts. The author argues that opium prohibition, and not the opium wars, was…

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List price: $50.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Harvard University, Asia Center
Publication date: 4/30/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 376
Size: 6.54" wide x 9.25" long x 1.30" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English

David Anthony Bellow is Assistant Professor of History at Washington & Lee University.




Introduction



The British prohibition in India in comparative perspective



Regional administrative structures



The Han core and policy formation



The opium problem in Xinjiang



The opium problem in southwestern China



Opium and Qing expansionism



Dynastic opium policy before the Daoguang reign



Translation of Shanxi Taiyu District Magistrate Chen Lihe's "opium prohibition pledge" stele