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The Chinese and Opium under the Republic : Worse Than Floods and Wild Beasts.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Albany : State University of New York Press, 2007Copyright date: ©2012Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (312 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780791480755
Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Chinese and Opium under the RepublicDDC classification:
  • 363.45095109041
LOC classification:
  • HV5840.C6 -- B43 2007eb
Online resources:
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 -- A -- B -- C -- D -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.
Summary: Examines China's attempts to control the opium economy in the early twentieth century.
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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 -- A -- B -- C -- D -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.

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

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