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The opium business : a history of crime and capitalism in maritime China /

"From its rise in the 1830s, to its pinnacle in the 1930s, the opium trade was a guiding force in the Chinese political economy. Opium money was inextricably bound up in local, national, and imperial finances, and the people who piloted the trade were integral to the fabric of Chinese society....

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Thilly, Peter (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2022]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Introduction : the opium business in Chinese and world history -- Local foundations, 1832-1839 -- Negotiated illegality, 1843-1860 -- Drug money and the fiscal-military state, 1857-1906 -- "Opium kings" and tax farmers in the age of prohibition, 1906-1938 -- New spatialities in the global drug trade, 1890s-1940s -- Opium and the frontier of Japanese power in South China, 1895-1945 -- Conclusion : following the money, today and in the past. 
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