Opium and the Limits of Empire: Drug Prohibition in the Chinese Interior, 1729-1850
(Book #241 in the Harvard East Asian Monographs Series)
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The British opium trade along China's seacoast has come to symbolize China's century-long descent into political and social chaos. In the standard historical narrative, opium is the primary medium through which China encountered the economic, social, and political institutions of the West. Opium, however, was not a Sino-British problem confined to southeastern China. It was, rather, an empire-wide crisis, and its spread among an ethnically diverse...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0674016491
ISBN13:9780674016491
Release Date:April 2005
Publisher:Harvard University Press
Length:361 Pages
Weight:1.50 lbs.
Dimensions:1.2" x 6.5" x 9.2"
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