TY - BOOK ID - 5412403 TI - Opium regimes : China, Britain, and Japan, 1839-1952 AU - Brook, Timothy AU - Wakabayashi, Bob Tadashi PY - 2000 SN - 0520220099 0520222369 PB - Berkeley (Calif.) : University of California press, DB - UniCat KW - Drug control KW - Drug traffic KW - Opium trade KW - History. KW - China KW - Great Britain KW - Japan KW - Relations KW - S11/0910 KW - S09/0505 KW - S09/0415 KW - S09/0200 KW - J4812.14 KW - J4813.31 KW - J4810.70 KW - China: Social sciences--Opium and drugs KW - China: Foreign relations and world politics--China and Great-Britain KW - China: Foreign relations and world politics--China and Japan KW - China: Foreign relations and world politics--General works and before 1840 KW - Japan: International politics and law -- international relations, policy and security -- Asia -- China KW - Japan: International politics and law -- international relations, policy and security -- Europe -- United Kingdom, Great Britain, England KW - Japan: International politics and law -- international relations, policy and security -- Kindai (1850s- ), bakumatsu, Meiji, Taishō KW - Opium KW - Drogues KW - Lutte antidrogue KW - Commerce KW - Histoire KW - Trafic KW - Chine KW - Grande-Bretagne KW - Japon KW - Drug dealing KW - Drug production, Illicit KW - Drug smuggling KW - Drug trade, Illicit KW - Drug trafficking KW - Drugs KW - Illicit drug production KW - Illicit drug trade KW - Narcotic trade KW - Narcotic traffic KW - Narcotic trafficking KW - Smuggling of drugs KW - Smuggling of narcotics KW - Traffic, Drug KW - Trafficking in drugs KW - Trafficking in narcotics KW - Drug abuse and crime KW - Narco-terrorism KW - Drug enforcement KW - Drug law enforcement KW - Drug policy KW - Drug traffic control KW - Narcotics, Control of KW - War on drugs KW - Vice control KW - History KW - Prices and sale KW - Government policy KW - Cina KW - Kinë KW - Cathay KW - Chinese National Government KW - Chung-kuo kuo min cheng fu KW - Republic of China (1912-1949) KW - Kuo min cheng fu (China : 1912-1949) KW - Chung-hua min kuo (1912-1949) KW - Kina (China) KW - National Government (1912-1949) KW - China (Republic : 1912-1949) KW - People's Republic of China KW - Chinese People's Republic KW - Chung-hua jen min kung ho kuo KW - Central People's Government of Communist China KW - Chung yang jen min cheng fu KW - Chung-hua chung yang jen min kung ho kuo KW - Central Government of the People's Republic of China KW - Zhonghua Renmin Gongheguo KW - Zhong hua ren min gong he guo KW - Kitaĭskai︠a︡ Narodnai︠a︡ Respublika KW - Činská lidová republika KW - RRT KW - Republik Rakjat Tiongkok KW - KNR KW - Kytaĭsʹka Narodna Respublika KW - Jumhūriyat al-Ṣīn al-Shaʻbīyah KW - RRC KW - Kitaĭ KW - Kínai Népköztársaság KW - Chūka Jinmin Kyōwakoku KW - Erets Sin KW - Sin KW - Sāthāranarat Prachāchon Čhīn KW - P.R. China KW - PR China KW - Chung-kuo KW - Zhongguo KW - Zhonghuaminguo (1912-1949) KW - Zhong guo KW - République Populaire de Chine KW - República Popular China KW - Catay KW - VR China KW - VRChina KW - 中國 KW - 中国 KW - 中华人民共和国 KW - Jhongguó KW - Bu̇gu̇de Nayiramdaxu Dundadu Arad Ulus KW - Bu̇gu̇de Nayiramdaqu Dumdadu Arad Ulus KW - Bu̇gd Naĭramdakh Dundad Ard Uls KW - Khi︠a︡tad KW - Kitad KW - Dumdadu Ulus KW - Dumdad Uls KW - Думдад Улс KW - Kitajska KW - China (Republic : 1949- ) KW - PRC KW - P.R.C. KW - BNKhAU KW - БНХАУ UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:5412403 AB - 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. ER -