- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Illustrations And Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: Opium’s History in China
-
One Opium for China: The British Connection -
Two From Peril to Profit: Opium in Late-Edo to Meiji Eyes -
Three Drugs, Taxes, and Chinese Capitalism in Southeast Asia -
Four The Hong Kong Opium Revenue, 1845–1885 -
Five Opium in Xinjiang and Beyond -
Six Drug Operations by Resident Japanese in Tianjin -
Seven Opium / Leisure / Shanghai: Urban Economies of Consumption -
Eight Opium and Modern Chinese State-Making -
Nine Opium and the State in Late-Qing Sichuan -
Ten Poppies, Patriotism, and the Public Sphere: Nationalism and State Leadership in the Anti-Opium Crusade in Fujian, 1906–1916 -
Eleven The National Anti-Opium Association and the Guomindang State, 1924–1937 -
Twelve Opium Control versus Opium Suppression: The Origins of the 1935 Six-Year Plan to Eliminate Opium and Drugs -
Thirteen The Responses of Opium Growers to Eradication Campaigns and the Poppy Tax, 1907–1949 -
Fourteen Opium and Collaboration in Central China, 1938–1940 -
Fifteen An Opium Tug-of-War: Japan versus the Wang Jingwei Regime -
Sixteen Resistance to Opium as a Social Evil in Wartime China -
Seventeen Nationalism, Identity, and State-Building: The Antidrug Crusade in the People’s Republic, 1949–1952 - Bibliography
- Contributors
- Index
Opium and Modern Chinese State-Making
Opium and Modern Chinese State-Making
- Chapter:
- (p.188) (p.189) Eight Opium and Modern Chinese State-Making
- Source:
- Opium Regimes
- Author(s):
R Bin Wong
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
This chapter discusses Chinese state making and the impact of opium control on that process. It examines earlier efforts by the Qing state to control society in order to appreciate its impressive campaign of 1906 as an attempt to “resecure a neo-Confucian social order.” The chapter argues that the difficulties which modern China encountered in its state-making enterprise would have been easier had the British not imported opium into China. Thus, in that sense, China “bore the burden of opium.”
Keywords: opium, modern China, state making, opium control, Qing state, social order, British, imported
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Illustrations And Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: Opium’s History in China
-
One Opium for China: The British Connection -
Two From Peril to Profit: Opium in Late-Edo to Meiji Eyes -
Three Drugs, Taxes, and Chinese Capitalism in Southeast Asia -
Four The Hong Kong Opium Revenue, 1845–1885 -
Five Opium in Xinjiang and Beyond -
Six Drug Operations by Resident Japanese in Tianjin -
Seven Opium / Leisure / Shanghai: Urban Economies of Consumption -
Eight Opium and Modern Chinese State-Making -
Nine Opium and the State in Late-Qing Sichuan -
Ten Poppies, Patriotism, and the Public Sphere: Nationalism and State Leadership in the Anti-Opium Crusade in Fujian, 1906–1916 -
Eleven The National Anti-Opium Association and the Guomindang State, 1924–1937 -
Twelve Opium Control versus Opium Suppression: The Origins of the 1935 Six-Year Plan to Eliminate Opium and Drugs -
Thirteen The Responses of Opium Growers to Eradication Campaigns and the Poppy Tax, 1907–1949 -
Fourteen Opium and Collaboration in Central China, 1938–1940 -
Fifteen An Opium Tug-of-War: Japan versus the Wang Jingwei Regime -
Sixteen Resistance to Opium as a Social Evil in Wartime China -
Seventeen Nationalism, Identity, and State-Building: The Antidrug Crusade in the People’s Republic, 1949–1952 - Bibliography
- Contributors
- Index
