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Author:

Derks, Hans, 1938-

Title:

History of the opium problem : the assault on the East, ca. 1600-1950 / by Hans Derks.

Publisher:

Brill,

Copyright Date:

2012

Description:

xxvi, 824 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Opium abuse--Asia--History.
Opium trade--Asia--History.
East and West.
Imperialism--Social aspects.
Opium--Asia--History.
History, 16th Century--Asia.
History, Modern 1601---Asia.
Opioid-Related Disorders--Asia--History.
Opium.
Geschichte.
Asien.
Drogen.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Contents note continued: What Did the Dutch learn about Opium from the Portuguese? -- 11. Pepper for Opium Vice Versa -- 12. The Bengal Scene -- The Dutch Connection -- Mughal Production and Consumption -- 13. The "Violent Opium Company" (VOC) in the East -- A "Heart of Darkness" avant la lettre -- The Dutch Opium Image -- Laudanum Paracelsi -- The Sailor's Health -- The Asiatic Opium Image of the Dutch -- Double Dutch Violence -- Monopoly Wars -- Empire Building -- The Banda Case and all that -- Other 17th-century Violence -- Continuous Dutch Violence -- Dutch Opium Trade: General Questions -- The Indigenous Producers -- Opium Consumption in the East Indies -- 14. The Amphioen Society and the End of the VOC -- A Brilliant Economist? -- The AS Performance -- 15. The Chinese, the VOC and the Opium -- Murder in Batavia -- Birth of a Chinese Hate? -- Chinese as Victims -- Chinese and Early Opium Trade -- 16. From Trade Monopoly into Narco-State Monopoly.
Contents note continued: A Transformation from Private into Public Interest -- The Four Van Hogendorps as Opium Dealers -- The Birth of a Narco-military State -- 17. Tin for Opium, Opium for Tin? -- The Opium Business of Billiton -- 18. Public Adventures of a Private State within the State -- A Royal Opium Dealer -- The State within the (Colonial) State -- 19. The Opium Regime of the Dutch (Colonial State), 1850-1950 -- The Outer Districts -- The Bali Case -- The Opiumregie -- The Dutch Cocaine Industry -- Legal Hypocrisy -- A Double Dutch End -- 20. Profits -- The Opium Farmer -- The Colonial State as Farmer -- 21. Reflections -- pt. FOUR THE FRENCH ASSAULT -- 22. Opium in and for La Douce France -- Parisian Fumes -- The French Pharmaceutical Scene -- Drags from abroad -- 23. The French Colonial Scene in Southeast Asia -- The Beginning of a Disaster -- The French Opium Performance -- Revenue Farming -- The Opiumregie -- The French Concession in Shanghai -- The End of a Disaster.
Contents note continued: 24. The Southeast Asian Context -- Introduction -- From "Golden Triangle" to "Bloody Quadrangle" -- The Tribal Scene -- The Shan State -- The Hmong Tribe -- Consumption Pattern -- Myanmar (Burma) -- Thailand (Siam) -- Malaysia (Melaka, Malacca) and Singapore -- 25. The Role of the Chinese in Southeast Asia -- About an "Identity" of Chinese Migrants -- The Chinese Settle(ment) Strategy -- The (pre- )History of the Chinese Opium Performance -- Asian Trade -- ... their industry and economy ... ' -- The 19th-century -- The Rich "Overseas Chinese" and Opium Criminality -- The Rich -- Criminality -- 26. Reflections -- pt. FIVE THE NEW IMPERIALISTS -- 27. Japan -- A Domestic Opium Problem -- The Annexation of Formosa/Taiwan -- A Former Formosa -- A "New Formosa" -- The Korean Case -- The Opium attack on China -- The Roaring Twenties' -- From World Economic Crisis to World War II -- World War II and after -- North China -- Nanjing China -- Hong Kong.
Contents note continued: Southeast Asia -- A Reflection -- 28. United States of America -- A Domestic Opium Problem from the Early 19th-century? -- Rise and Direct Decline of "Free Trade" -- American-Chinese Opium relations, 1800-ca. 1865 -- The "Mystery" of the Chinese Opium Import -- The Creation of a Chinese Threat after 1911 -- A first "War on Drugs" and its Limitations -- The Philippine Case -- Early 20th-century Opium and Cocaine Consumption -- A Basic Drink -- Basic Knowledge -- A Mega Consumption -- Cocaine Connections -- Basic Instincts -- 29.A Reflection -- pt. SIX THE VICTIMS -- 30. Blaming the Chinese Victims -- Introduction -- An original image -- The Addict "by nature" -- Who and How in the Chinese Opium Scene -- The Religious Assault -- Racism -- 31. The West and its Opium Import in China -- A British Inspector ... -- ... and his American Heirs -- 32. Opium Production and Consumption in China -- The Healers and the Poppy -- The Judge and the Poppy.
Contents note continued: Chinese Republican Opium Production -- Yunnan Opium Production and Trade -- Chinese Opium Consumption -- About Opium Gangsters -- KMT Opium Activities -- A Mao Opium Case? -- 33.A Reflection -- pt. SEVEN THE STORY OF THE SNAKE AND ITS TAIL -- The Problem -- Its History -- Interpretation History -- Interpretation Problem -- What Could Be Done? -- APPENDICES -- Appendix 1 From Rags to Riches to Rags, ca. 1775-1914 -- Costs of the first treatments -- Production of opium in India and its market prices -- The work in a British opium factory in India -- Public sales -- Exports of Indian opium -- Destinations -- EIC ships from Calcutta to Canton, 1775-1820 -- Import trade of Canton, 1833 -- Prices of opium, 1800-1914 -- Appendix 2 The Dutch Opium Import, 1678-1816 -- Appendix 3 The Amphioen Society Swindle -- Appendix 4 From VOC Opium to Raffles' Heritage -- Appendix 5 The French and Dutch Opium Factories -- GLOSSARY -- BIBLIOGRAPHY.
Contents note continued: Primary Sources, 1500-1900 -- Sources 1900-1940 -- Literature 1940 to the Present.

Series:

Sinica Leidensia ; v. 105.

ISBN:

9004221581 (hbk. : alk. paper)
9789004221581 (hbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)772715703

LCCN:

2012000057

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)