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Opium to Java - Revenue Farming and Chinese Enterprise in Colonial Indonesia, 1860-1910 (Paperback)
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Opium to Java - Revenue Farming and Chinese Enterprise in Colonial Indonesia, 1860-1910 (Paperback)
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Opium smoking was a widespread social custom in nineteenth-century
Java, and commercial trade in opium had far-reaching economic and
political implications. As in many of the Dutch territories in the
Indonesian archipelago, the drug was imported from elsewhere and
sold throughout the island under a government monopoly - a system
of revenue "farms." These monopoly franchises were regulated by the
government and operated by members of Java's Chinese elite, who
were frequently also local officials appointed by the Dutch. The
farms thus helped support large Chinese patronage networks that
vied for control of rural markets throughout Java. James Rush
explains the workings of the opium farm system during its mature
years by measuring the social, economic, and political reach of
these monopolies within the Dutch-dominated colonial society. His
analysis of the opium farm incorporates the social history of opium
smoking in Java and of the Chinese officer elite that dominated not
only the opium farming but also the island's Chinese community and
much of its commercial economy. He describes the relations among
the various classes of Chinese and Javanese, as well as the
relation of the Chinese elite to the Dutch, and he traces the
political interplay that smuggling and the black market stimulated
among all these elements. An important contribution to the social
and political history of Southeast Asia and now brought back to
life as a member of Equinox Publishing's Classic Indonesia series,
this book gives a new dimension to our knowledge of
nineteenth-century Javanese society and the processes of social
control and economic dominance during the colonial period. JAMES R.
RUSH is a historian of modern Southeast Asia whose other works
include The Last Tree: Reclaiming the Environment in Tropical Asia;
Java: A Travellers' Anthology; and several volumes of contemporary
Asian biography in the Ramon Magsaysay Awards series. His is
associate professor of history at Arizona State University.
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