... . “ Youguan jinyan yundong de jidian xin renshi” (A few points of new understanding concerning the opium prohibition movement). Lishi dang’an 3 : 79 – 86 . Lin Dunkui and Kong Xiangji 1986 . “Yapian Zhanzheng qianqi tongzhi jieji neibudouzheng tanxi” (Analytical inquiry into the struggle...

...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...

...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...

... woman named Roop Kanwar. At that time the Indian government revised the colonial legislation banning widow immolation to include sati glorification and thereby outlawed ceremonies, processions, or functions that eulogize any historical person who has committed sati . The law furthermore prohibited...

...Robert K. Sakai Abstract The Shimazu daimyo of Satsuma-han maintained indirect contact with the China mainland throughout most of the Tokugawa period. This contact was possible despite the seclusion policy of the Tokugawa government which prohibited Japanese from going abroad and the policy...

... in their trade unions to public servants and prohibiting political activity by the unions. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1966 1966 1 Government of India, Ministry of Finance , Commission of Enquiry on Emoluments and Conditions of Service of Central Government Employees...

... the eighteenth century. By the early nineteenth century, official prohibitions on dike building were ignored, and a series of disastrous floods occurred. VOL. XLI, N O . 4 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES AUGUST 1982 Water Control in the Dongting Lake Region during the Ming and Qing Periods PETER C. PERDUE D espite...

...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...

...Michael D. Shin Abstract During the Cold War, when South Korea was under a military dictatorship, the term “collaborator” ( ch'inilp'a ) often functioned as a kind of prohibition, indicating that a person or certain texts were not worthy of serious scholarly attention. Collaboration was also...

... female roles ( dan ) in the Beijing opera and their elite male patrons. Over the past century, many have argued that the “fad” of homoerotic patron/actor relations during the Qing had been a side-effect of the prohibition of officials consorting with female courtesans, and that as soon...

... of Guomindang opium policy and the highly charged political atmosphere from which it emerged to present a clear and well-focused analysis of the official rhetoric of prohibition and the financial and military realities that worked to undermine it. This detailed and well-researched study presents a balanced...

... to an understanding of the play. Written in a lively style, it is pleasant reading. It is factually accurate, except for a rare slip as when he wrote (24): "In 1642 women were prohibited from appearing on the stage, and in 1652 this prohibition was extended to.female impersonators." Actually the source he cites4 says...

... sponsored by the United Nations University, this book offers an insightful critique of the prohibition regime that now dominates international drug policy. In his introduction, the author promises a comprehensive survey of major illicit narcotics, coca and opiates, in both Asia and the Americas. Indeed...

.... It is significant because it presents evidence that documents the Ch'ing government's successful manipulation of the treaty system to achieve the regulation and prohibition of this trade, but it is also interesting because it touches on moral issues connected with the mid-nineteenth century crusade against slavery...

...), Chulalongkorn (Rama V, r. 1868 1910), and Vajiravudh (Rama VI, r. 1910 25). First, I elaborate on the content of the oath to reveal its totalizing control over caocom sexuality. Second, I argue that these rigid laws prohibiting sex with Inner City women were the juridical manifestation of the sociopolitical...

... personal military or civil service. This obviously emphasizes not merely the right to bear arms, but the duty to bear arms and to render service to the State. Article III of the American Bill of Rights prohibits the quartering of soldiers without the consent of property owners. This also arose...

..., the rise of the Indian National Congress (INC) and its activities in Bombay generated new alignments and new fault lines (chapters by Vanessa Caru, Robert Rahman Raman, and Danish Khan). Prohibition and liquor shop picketing appear in two chapters on the INC in Bombay. In the early 1930s, we read of how...

... as a resistant tendency which the super-genre cannibalizes to produce a more conventional representation of sexual difference. In "Guardians of the View: The Prohibition of the Private," Prasad turns to one of the most notorious features of Indian cinema the ban on "kissing." Undercutting the received wisdom...

... a "poetic of the Japanese forbidden" (p. 298) operating in Nagisa Oshima's censored film, In the Realm of the Senses. His analysis of how the film breaks not only taboos against sexual representation, but also "the prohibition against pollution . . . the prohibition against passionate attachment to a sexual...

... health because they eliminated one of the most effective medicines available to ordinary people (p. 74). Again, there are important factual errors here. Medicinal use of opium was largely ignored by the state, and although the authors claim that opium prohibition was a medical disaster...