Opium, State, and Society: China's Narco-Economy and the Guomindang, 1924-1937,9780824823610

Opium, State, and Society: China's Narco-Economy and the Guomindang, 1924-1937

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ISBN13: 9780824823610
ISBN10: 0824823613
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2001-01-01
Publisher(s): Univ of Hawaii Pr
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Summary

Surprisingly little has been written about the complicated relationship between opium and China and its people. Opium, State, and Society goes a long way toward illuminating this relationship in the Republican period, when all levels of Chinese society -- from peasants to school teachers, merchants, warlords, and ministers of finance -- were physically or economically dependent on the drug.

The centerpiece of this study is an investigation of the symbiotic relationship that evolved between opium and the Guomindang's rise to power in the years 1924-1937. Based solidly on a previously untapped reservoir of archival sources from the People's Republic and Taiwan, this work critically analyzes the complex realities of a government policy that vacillated between prohibition and legalization, and ultimately sought to curtail the cultivation, sale, and consumption of opium through a government monopoly.

Author Biography

Edward R. Slack, Jr., is currently an assistant professor of history at Indiana State University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix
Note on Romanization xi
Weights and Measures xiii
Introduction 1(5)
China's Narco-Economy in the 1920s and 1930s
6(28)
The Effects of Opium on Chinese Society
34(29)
Guomindang Opium Policy during the Height of Warlordism, 1924-1928
63(23)
Nanjing's Response to Attacks on Opium Policy, 1924-1937
86(29)
Practical Determinants of Guomindang Opium Policy
115(34)
Conclusion 149(10)
Appendix 159(16)
Notes 175(38)
Golssary 213(6)
Bibliography 219(12)
Index 231

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