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...James A. Millward Opium and the Limits of Empire: Drug Prohibition in the Chinese Interior, 1729–1850 . By David Anthony Bello . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center , 2005 . xxi , 361 pp. $50.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2007 2007...

...Alfred W. McCoy Unintended Consequences: Illegal Drugs and Drug Policies in Nine Countries . By Lamond Tullis . Boulder, Colo. : Lynne Rienner , 1995 . ix, 227 pp. $42.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1996 1996 BOOK REVIEWS ASIA GENERAL 707...

...Alan Baumler Anti-Drug Crusades in Twentieth-Century China: Nationalism, History, and State Building . By Zhou Yongming . Lanham Md. : Rowman and Littlefield , 1999 xii, 195 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2001 2001 BOOK REVIEWS CHINA 201 democracy...

...Michael C. Williams The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade . By Alfred W. McCoy . Brooklyn : Lawrence Hill Books , 1991 . xv, 634 pp. $29.00 (cloth); $16.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1992 1992 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTHEAST...

...Diana S. Kim 1 Carl A. Trocki , Opium, Empire and the Global Political Economy: A Study of the Asian Opium Trade, 1750–1950 ( London : Routledge , 1999 ) . Relatedly, as Rimner stresses the importance of international public opinion for delegitimizing the Asian drug...

...Miriam Kingsberg Abstract This article introduces the 1952–56 hiropon crisis, Japan's sole major domestic experience with illegal drugs, and the world's first methamphetamine “epidemic.” In the early postwar years, hiropon addiction came to symbolize the dependent, traumatized state of a defeated...

...Alan Baumler Narcotic Culture: A History of Drugs in China . By Frank Dikötter , Lars Laamann , and Zhou Xun . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2004 . 256 pp. $35.00 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2005 2005 B O O K R E V I E W S C H I N A 165...

...James H. Mills Abstract This article examines the market for cocaine in India during the early twentieth century and the efforts of the colonial state to control it. The British authorities issued regulations to prohibit the drug's use as early as 1900, and yet by the start of World War I...

...E. Paul Durrenberger The Burmese Connection: Illegal Drugs and the Making of the Golden Triangle . By Ronald D. Renard . Boulder, Colo. : Lynn Rienner , 1996 . xix, 148 pp. $38.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1996 1996 1078 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...

...Josef Silverstein War on Drugs: Studies in the Failure of U.S. Narcotics Policy . Edited by Alfred W. McCoy and Alan A. Block . Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press , 1992 . 359 pp. $45.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1993 1993 BOOK REVIEWS ASIA GENERAL 425...

... crises that triggered the collapse of “traditional” China and thus could be seen as the inaugural event in its “modern” history. The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams and the Making of China . By Julia Lovell . New York : Overlook Press , 2014 . xxiv, 456 pp. $35.00 (cloth). Copyright ©...

... usefulness of this figure of the sovereign trickster with regard to President Donald Trump, whose form of tricksterism derives, the author argues, from the tradition of blackface minstrelsy. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2019  2019 death drug war Duterte Foucault Mbembe...

...James Farrer The second half of this book focuses on state programs to deal with the drug-related HIV crisis among the Nuosu. In chapter 4 we see that community-led efforts at controlling drug use have had some limited success, especially efforts that utilize Nuosu kinship structure. However...

... Salinas Gotari for its corruption-busting, crime-fighting integrity unmindful of the drug money corruption and syndicate connections that reached into the heart of his regime (p. 106). Despite this uniformed canvass of the Asian half of the world's narcotics traffic, the author's critique of current drug...

... to the Philippine presidency in May 2016 came a flood of academic work on Philippine politics on a scale not seen since the transition from Marcos to Aquino and from dictatorship to democracy in the mid to late 1980s. Alongside human rights reports on Duterte's murderous “War on Drugs,” and in parallel...

... policies, the burial of Ferdinand Marcos in the Libingan ng mga Bayani (Heroes’ Cemetery), and—to some extent—the president's “war on drugs” (Curato, pp. 288–95). Still, the acquiescence of the radical Left and its impact during the critical first year of Duterte's regime will need to be carefully...

... American political support, and even money, for drug trafficking. In between these events, Corsican gangsters, Burmese warlords, Pakistani and Thai generals all used their CIA connections to further their drug-trading activities. That the West turned opium into an international commodity cannot be denied...

... , successfully enhances the discussion of how both thought patterns and the narcotics trade reified nexuses of imperialism from and including Japan. The economic, ideological, and political roles of the drug trade in Japan's growing empire in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries are worthy...

... to analyze the many facets of what he terms the problem of opium (as opposed to the history of the drug) from 1660 to 1950 in East, South, and Southeast Asia, as well as in Europe and the Americas, and his ability to synthesize a massive amount of material is impressive. That said, the subject of opium...

... Prakashani . Desmond Ray . 1992 . The European Discovery of the Indian Flora . Oxford : Oxford University Press . Dey Kanailal . 1867 . The Indigenous Drugs of India . Calcutta : Thacker, Spink & Co. Dey Kanailal . 1896 . The Indigenous Drugs of India . 2nd ed. Calcutta...