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03689aam a2200421 i 4500 001 D97B0EB496FD11ED8856CD373CECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230118010046 008 220207t20222022cauab b 001 0 eng c 010 $a 2022005932 020 $a 1503634108 020 $a 9781503634107 020 $a 1503628868 020 $a 9781503628861 035 $a (OCoLC)1335121356 040 $a STF $b eng $e rda $c STF $d OCLCF $d UKMGB $d TOH $d CDX $d YDX $d DLC $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a a-cc-fu 050 00 $a HV5840.C62 $b T56 2022 082 00 $a 362.29/30951245 $2 23/eng/20220711 100 1 $a Thilly, Peter, $e author. 245 14 $a The opium business : $b a history of crime and capitalism in maritime China / $c Peter Thilly. 264 1 $a Stanford, California : $b Stanford University Press, $c [2022] 300 $a xii, 298 pages : $b illustrations, maps ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-281) and index. 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. 520 $a "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. In this book, Peter Thilly narrates the dangerous lives and shrewd business operations of opium traffickers in southeast China, situating them within a global history of capitalism. By tracing the evolution of the opium trade from clandestine offshore agreements in the 1830s, to multi-million dollar "Prohibition Bureau" contracts in the 1930s, Thilly demonstrates how the modernizing Chinese state was infiltrated, manipulated, and profoundly transformed by opium profiteers. Opium merchants carried the drug by sea, over mountains, and up rivers, with leading traders establishing monopolies over trade routes and territories, and assembling "opium armies" to protect their businesses. Over time, and as their ranks grew, these organizations became more bureaucratized and militarized, mimicking--and then eventually influencing, infiltrating, or supplanting--the state. Through the chaos of revolution, warlordism, and foreign invasion, opium traders diligently expanded their power through corruption, bribery, and direct collaboration with the state. Drug traders mattered--not only in the seedy ways in which they have been caricatured, but crucially as shadowy architects of statecraft and China's evolution on the world stage"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Opium trade $z Fujian Sheng $z Fujian Sheng $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Opium trade $z Fujian Sheng $z Fujian Sheng $x History $y 20th century. 650 7 $a SOCIAL SCIENCE $x General. $x General. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a Opium trade. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01046574 651 7 $a China $z Fujian Sheng. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01209951 648 7 $a 1800-1999 $2 fast 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 776 08 $i Online version: $a Thilly, Peter. $t Opium business. $d Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2022 $z 9781503634114 $w (DLC) 2022005933 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117013352.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=D97B0EB496FD11ED8856CD373CECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search