{"product_id":"opium-regimes-china-britain-and-japan-1839-1952-9780520222366","title":"Opium Regimes: China, Britain, and Japan, 1839-1952","description":"Opium is more than just a drug extracted from poppies. Over the past two centuries it has been a palliative medicine, an addictive substance, a powerful mechanism for concentrating and transferring wealth and power between nations, and the anchor for a now vanished sociocultural world in and around China. \u003ci\u003eOpium Regimes\u003c\/i\u003e integrates the pioneering research of sixteen scholars to show that the opium trade was not purely a British operation but involved Chinese merchants, Chinese state agents, and Japanese imperialists as well. The book presents a coherent historical arc that moves from British imperialism in the nineteenth century, to Chinese capital formation and state making at the turn of the century, to Japanese imperialism through the 1930s and 1940s, and finally to the apparent resolution of China's opium problem in the early 1950s. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTogether these essays show that the complex interweaving of commodity trading, addiction, and state intervention in opium's history refigured the historical face of East Asia more profoundly than any other commodity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-43609\"\u003eTimothy Brook\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of California Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/18\/2000\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 458\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.67lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.02h x 6.12w x 1.28d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780520222366\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0520222369\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-POL\"\u003ePolitical Science\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-POL011000\"\u003eInternational Relations | General\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-SOC\"\u003eSocial Science\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-SOC000000\"\u003eGeneral\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTimothy Brook\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of History at the University of Toronto and the author most recently of the prizewinning \u003ci\u003eThe Confusions of Pleasure: Commerce and Culture in Ming China\u003c\/i\u003e (California, 1998). \u003cb\u003eBob Tadashi Wakabayashi\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of History at York University in Toronto and the author of \u003ci\u003eJapanese Loyalism Reconstrued\u003c\/i\u003e (1995), among other works.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44296962310381,"sku":"9780520222366","price":58.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_f1e29c7c-e2d0-45af-ada0-c1fa659737bc.jpg?v=1697217056","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/opium-regimes-china-britain-and-japan-1839-1952-9780520222366","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}