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Contents List of Figures and Tables ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction Worse than Floods and Wild Beasts: Opium, Politics, and Society in Republican China 1 Chapter 1 Establishing a Meaning for Opium 9 Chapter 2 The Narrative of Addiction in China and the West 35 Chapter 3 The International Campaign against Opium 57 Chapter 4 Warloads and Opium 89 Chapter 5 Opium, the Nation, and the Revolution 111 Chapter 6 Hankou, the Anti-Opium Inspectorate, and Control of the Opium Trade 151 Chapter 7 Purifying the People and Defending the State: The Six Year Plan to Eliminate Opium 177 Chapter 8 Defining Drugs 195 Chapter 9 War, Poppies, and the Completion of the Plan 215 Conclusion 231 Notes 239 Bibliography 277 Index 294 vii ...

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