Opium regimes : China, Britain, and Japan, 1839-1952 / edited by Timothy Brook and Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi.
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.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : Opium's history in China / Timothy Brook and Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi
- Opium for China : the British connection / Gregory Blue
- From peril to profit : opium in late-Edo to Meiji eyes / Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi
- Drugs, taxes, and Chinese capitalism in Southeast Asia / Carl A. Trocki
- The Hong Kong opium revenue, 1845-1885 / Christopher Munn
- Opium in Xinjiang and beyond / David Bello
- Drug operations by resident Japanese in Tianjin / Motohiro Kobayashi
- Opium/leisure/Shanghai : urban economies of consumption / Alexander Des Forges
- Opium and modern Chinese state-making / R. Bin Wong
- Opium and the state in late-Qing Sichuan / Judith Wyman
- Poppies, patriotism, and the public sphere : nationalism and state leadership in the anti-opium crusade in Fujian, 1906-1916 / Joyce A. Madancy
- The National Anti-Opium Association and the Guomindang state, 1924-1937 / Edward R. Slack Jr.
- Opium control versus opium suppression : the origins of the 1935 six-year plan to eliminate opium and drugs / Alan Baumler
- The responses of opium growers to eradication campaigns and the poppy tax, 1907-1949 / Lucien Bianco
- Opium and collaboration in Central China, 1938-1940 / Timothy Brook
- An opium tug-of-war : Japan versus the Wang Jingwei regime / Motohiro Kobayashi
- Resistance to opium as a social evil in wartime China / Mark S. Eykholt
- Nationalism, identity, and state-building : the antidrug crusade in the People's Republic, 1949-1952 / Zhou Yongming.