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...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 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...

... 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...

... of the outbreak and resolution of a globally unprecedented drug crisis. The “ hiropon age” ( hiropon jidai or hiropon e-ji ), lasting from about 1952 to 1956, coincided with the resumption of self-rule following Japan's defeat in war in 1945 and over six years of occupation by the United States and its allies...

... the Philippines' political, historical, and artistic landscapes as sites and material for theorizing about global processes. For scholars interested in the Philippines and its relationship to global forces, the book has much to offer. Extrajudicial killings more generally, and specifically those in Duterte's drug...

..., Conn.: Yale University Press, 2000. xii, 300 pp. $37.50 (cloth). In the 1990s, the specter of the Black-Korean conflict haunted the megalopolises of the United States. Amidst nationwide discussions of deindustrialization, the drug wars, and the urban underclass, the mass media disseminated the notion...

... of it, ton, and even less about Chinese disrupted by the opium! . . . Always one came back to the drug" war, say, at Tinghai or Ningpo. Fay is of no help (pp. 55, 64). here, largely because he relies solely on Western Second, in a part of the book subtitled "Christ sources. (Fay joins a number of persons...

...- locking system it was and at the bottom of it, ton, and even less about Chinese disrupted by the opium! . . . Always one came back to the drug" war, say, at Tinghai or Ningpo. Fay is of no help (pp. 55, 64). here, largely because he relies solely on Western Second, in a part of the book subtitled "Christ...

... of deindustrialization, the drug wars, and the urban underclass, the mass media disseminated the notion that African Americans and Korean Americans (and Asian Americans more generally) were at battle. Whether articulated as the struggle between the exploited poor and the exploitative middleman minority...

... to Obama's oblique criticism of the thousands of extrajudicial killings during his ongoing drug war, saying: “Who does he think he is? I am no American puppet. I am the president of a sovereign country and I am not answerable to anyone except the Filipino people. ’Putang ina mo’ [Your mother's a whore], I...

... two wars with China in the nineteenth century to open it up to the "opium trade." Throughout Southeast Asia, colonial governments jealously guarded their opium monopolies as an important source of revenue. They only began to turn against official involvement in the drugs trade in the twentieth century...

... 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...

... audiences for protests like Prince Gong's impassioned 1856 démarche (p. 57); who made up the readership for the mass-produced opium literature by the Dyer Brothers media (p. 107); to whom drug control came to appear as a “necessity dictated by history itself” at the end of World War I (p. 256); and whether...

...." Throughout Southeast Asia, colonial governments jealously guarded their opium monopolies as an important source of revenue. They only began to turn against official involvement in the drugs trade in the twentieth century, and seriously only after World War II. Even then, opium production represented an easy...

...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...

... 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...

... 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...

...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...