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Article: Opium, State, and Society: China's Narco-Economy and the Guomindang, 1924-1937. (Reviews).(Book Review)
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- China Review International
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- September 22, 2001
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Edward R. Slack, Jr. Opium, State, and Society: China's Narco-Economy and the Guomindang, 1924-1937. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2001. xiii, 240 pp. Hardcover $59.00, ISBN 0-8248-2278-1. Paperback, $24.95, ISBN 0-8248-2361-3.
Just a generation ago, the Western scholarly literature on opium in China was both numerically meager and chronologically narrow. Arthur Waley's The Opium War through Chinese Eyes and Chang Hsin-pao's Commissioner Lin and the Opium War introduced the collegiate world to the Western drug trade in China, its relationship to the Middle Kingdom's view of international relations, and the ensuing Opium War (1839-1842) and treaty ...