The Opium Business: A History of Crime and Capitalism in Maritime China [1 ed.] 1503628868, 9781503628861

From its rise in the 1830s to its pinnacle in the 1930s, the opium trade was a guiding force in the Chinese political ec

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The Opium Business: A History of Crime and Capitalism in Maritime China [1 ed.]
1503628868, 9781503628861

How the people who bought and sold opium wrangled and harnessed the modernizing Chinese state.

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