Opium, State, and Society: China's Narco-Economy and the Guomindang, 1924-1937
University of Hawaii Press. Surprisingly little has been written about the complicated relationship between opium and China and its people. Opium, State, and Society goes a long way toward illuminating this relationship in the Republican period, when all levels of Chinese society--from peasants to school teachers, merchants, warlords, and ministers..... More