Opium and the limits of empire : drug prohibition in the Chinese interior, 1729-1850 / David Anthony...
Opium and the limits of empire : drug prohibition in the Chinese interior, 1729-1850 / David Anthony...
Opium and the limits of empire : drug prohibition in the Chinese interior, 1729-1850 / David Anthony Bello.
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Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2005.
Date
2005.
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N363.45095/3
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English
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p. cm.
Contents
1. Introduction -- 2. The British prohibition in India in comparative perspective -- 3. Regional administrative structures -- 4. The Han core and policy formation -- 5. The opium problem in Xinjiang -- 6. The opium problem in southwestern China -- 7. Opium and Qing expansionism -- App. A. Dynastic o...
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Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2005.
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Massachusetts
Date Published
2005.
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"This book examines the crisis from the perspective of Qing prohibition efforts. The author argues that opium prohibition, unlike the opium wars, was genuinely imperial in scale and is hence much more representative of the actual drug problem faced by Qing administrators. The study of prohibition also permits a more comprehensive and accurate obser...
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Opium and the limits of empire : drug prohibition in the Chinese interior, 1729-1850 / David Anthony Bello.
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Harvard East Asian monographs ; 241.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N363.45095/3
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74VKddAlQDm3
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0674016491 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780674016491 (cloth : alk. paper)
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363.45095109033
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991019851729702626
