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Journal of Asian Studies (2005) 64 (2): 451–453.
Published: 01 May 2005
...Edward R. Slack, Jr The Troublesome Legacy of Commissioner Lin: The Opium Trade and Opium Suppression in Fujian Province, 1820s–1920s . By Joyce A. Madancy . Harvard East Asian Monographs, no. 227. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center , 2003 . xvi , 430 pp. $50.00 (cloth...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1948) 7 (4): 435–439.
Published: 01 August 1948
...Ssu-yü Têng BOOK REVIEWS Foreign mud; being an account of the opium, imbroglio at Canton in the 1830's and the Anglo-Chinese war that followed. BY MAURICE COLLIS. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1947. x, 300 p. $5.00. Old China hands and the Foreign Office. BY NATHAN A. PELCOVITS. New York: Published...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (4): 927–940.
Published: 01 November 2014
... a discussion of various ideas and events—visions of China's place in the world, how the story of the Opium War is thought about in different settings, the history of Sinology—shaped by personal as well as scholarly concerns. The essay's ties to the author's life and associations, which come into play more...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1976) 36 (1): 131–132.
Published: 01 November 1976
...Bryant Avery BOOK REVIEWS 131 attached to the K'ang-hsi emperor and his reign, read like fiction. But for all their charm and Oxnam's regency appears as a last stand of Man- frequent usefulness as translators for the opium chu conservatism on the eve of an age of re- sellers, the missionaries did...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2013) 72 (4): 972–973.
Published: 01 November 2013
...Joyce A. Madancy History of the Opium Problem: The Assault on the East, ca. 1600–1950 . By Hans Derks . Leiden : Brill , 2012 . xxvi, 824 pp. $288.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2013  2013 Hans Derks has attempted a herculean task in seeking...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2016) 75 (3): 809–810.
Published: 01 August 2016
...Michael D. Block America's First Adventure in China: Trade, Treaties, Opium, and Salvation . By John R. Haddad . Philadelphia : Temple University Press , 2013 . ix, 283 pp. ISBN: 9781439906897 (cloth; also available in paper and as e-book). Copyright © The Association...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2022) 81 (1): 253–254.
Published: 01 February 2022
...Genie Yoo Empires of Vice: The Rise of Opium Prohibition across Southeast Asia . By Diana S. Kim . Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press , 2020 . vii, 309 pp. ISBN: 978069117240 8(cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2022 2022 Diana S. Kim's...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2018) 77 (4): 1066–1068.
Published: 01 November 2018
...Yue Du Merchants of War and Peace: British Knowledge of China in the Making of the Opium War . By Song-Chuan Chen . Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press , 2017 . xiv, 230 pp. ISBN: 9789888390564 (cloth, also available as e-book). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1959) 19 (1): 67–71.
Published: 01 November 1959
...Hsin-Pao Chang The Opium War Through Chinese Eyes . By Arthur Waley . New York : Macmillan , 1959 . 257 . Appendix, Index, Map, Notes. $4.75. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1959 1959 1 For an appraisal of this collection, sec Hsin-pao Chang, “Ya-p'ien...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1965) 24 (3): 501–502.
Published: 01 May 1965
...Stanley Spector Commissioner Lin and the Opium War . By Hsin-Pao Chang . Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press , 1964 . xiv, 319 . Bibliography; Glossary; Maps; Index. $7.00. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1965 1965 BOOK REVIEWS 501 cally blurred...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1994) 53 (2): 536–537.
Published: 01 May 1994
...Marianne Bastid-Bruguiere The Inner Opium War . By James M. Polachek . Cambridge : The Council on Asian Studies/Harvard University , 1992 . viii, 400 pp. $30.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1994 1994 536 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES yellow unions...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2005) 64 (3): 792–793.
Published: 01 August 2005
...Angela Burger Anglo-European Science and the Rhetoric of Empire: Malaria, Opium, and British Rule in India, 1756–1895 . By Paul C. Winther . Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books , 2003 . xviii , 429 pp. $90.00 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2005 2005 792 T H E J O U...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2002) 61 (4): 1332–1334.
Published: 01 November 2002
...Zhou Yongming Modern China and Opium . Edited by Alan Baumler . Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press , 2001 . 190 pp. $22.95 (paper); $55.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2002 2002 1332 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES The editors are sensitive...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2008) 67 (1): 256–258.
Published: 01 February 2008
...Joyce A. Madancy The Chinese and Opium under the Republic: Worse Than Floods and Wild Beasts . By Alan Baumler . Albany : State University of New York Press , 2007 . xi , 297 pp. $80.00 (cloth); $26.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2008 2008...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2007) 66 (1): 219–221.
Published: 01 February 2007
...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...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2001) 60 (3): 846–847.
Published: 01 August 2001
...Joyce A. Madancy Opium, State, and Society: China's Narco-Economy and the Guomindang, 1924–1937 . By Edward R. Slack Jr . Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press , 2000 . ix, 240 pp. $59.00 (cloth); $29.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2001 2001 846...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2001) 60 (3): 819–820.
Published: 01 August 2001
...Eric Tagliacozzo Opium Regimes: China, Britain, and Japan, 1839–1952 . Edited by Timothy Brook and Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi . Berkeley : University of California Press , 2000 . xii, 444 pp. $60.00 (cloth); $22.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2001...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2015) 74 (2): 472–474.
Published: 01 May 2015
...Matthew W. Mosca 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 © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2015  2015 The Opium War once ranked among the most studied events...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2010) 69 (4): 1217–1218.
Published: 01 November 2010
...Kai-wing Chow Ruan Yuan, 1764–1849: The Life and Work of a Major Scholar-Official in Nineteenth-Century China before the Opium War . By Betty Peh-T'i Wei . Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press , 2006 . xx , 392 pp. $69.50 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1986) 45 (2): 472–473.
Published: 01 February 1986
...Joel M. Halpern Poppies, Pipes, and People: Opium and Its Use in Laos . By Joseph Westermeyer . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1983 . xxii, 336 pp. Maps, Tables, Plates, Glossary, Bibliography, Index. $28.50. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1986 1986...