The British opium trade along China's seacoast has come to
symbolize China's century-long descent into political and social
chaos. In the standard historical narrative, opium is the primary
medium through which China encountered the economic, social, and
political institutions of the West. Opium, however, was not a
Sino-British problem confined to southeastern China. It was,
rather, an empire-wide crisis, and its spread among an ethnically
diverse populace created regionally and culturally distinct
problems of control for the Qing state.
This book examines the 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. The study of prohibition also permits a more
comprehensive and accurate observation of the economics and
criminology of opium. The Qing drug traffic involved the domestic
production, distribution, and consumption of opium. A balanced
examination of the opium market and state anti-drug policy in terms
of prohibition reveals the importance of the empire's landlocked
western frontier regions, which were the domestic production
centers, in what has previously been considered an essentially
coastal problem.
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