Opium and the limits of empire: drug prohibition in the chinese interior, 1729–1850
Auteur :
Bello, David Anthony
Éditeur :
Harvard University Press
ISBN :
9780674016491
Date de publication :
30 avr. 2005
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
This book examines the Chinese opium 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 faced by Qing administrators.