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List of Figures and Tables FIGURES Fig. 1.1 Opium likin revenue 32 Fig. 2.1 Conspicuous Consumption 37 Fig. 6.1 Cover of Opium: An avoidable evil 174 Fig. 8.1 Zilin and Ahmei 203 Fig. 8.2 Put down your pipe 207 TABLES Table 1.1 Agrarian and Commercial revenues as a percent of total 31 Table 8.1 Registered yan min 206 Table 9.1 Opium shipped by jianyunsuo 217 ix ...

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