Opium and the Limits of Empire: Drug Prohibition in the Chinese Interior, 1729-1850 by David Anthony Bello

Opium and the Limits of Empire: Drug Prohibition in the Chinese Interior, 1729-1850

David Anthony Bello

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This book examines the crisis from the perspective of Qing prohibition efforts. The author argues that opium prohibition, and not the opium wars, was genuinely imperial in scale and is hence much more representative of the actual drug problem face...

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