
Timothy Brook (ed.)
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Published online:
22 March 2012
Published in print:
18 September 2000
Online ISBN:
9780520924499
Print ISBN:
9780520220096
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Social order and the problem of opium Social order and the problem of opium
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The chinese state, foreign relations, and opium The chinese state, foreign relations, and opium
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The political economy of opium The political economy of opium
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Opium and the arc of modern chinese state-making Opium and the arc of modern chinese state-making
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Notes Notes
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Chapter
Eight Opium and Modern Chinese State-Making
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Pages
188–211
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Published:September 2000
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Wong, R Bin, 'Opium and Modern Chinese State-Making', in Timothy Brook, Patrick Carr, and Maria Kefalas (eds), Opium Regimes: China, Britain, and Japan, 1839-1952 (Oakland, CA , 2000; online edn, California Scholarship Online, 22 Mar. 2012), https://doi.org/10.1525/california/9780520220096.003.0039, accessed 28 Apr. 2025.
Abstract
This chapter discusses Chinese state making and the impact of opium control on that process. It examines earlier efforts by the Qing state to control society in order to appreciate its impressive campaign of 1906 as an attempt to “resecure a neo-Confucian social order.” The chapter argues that the difficulties which modern China encountered in its state-making enterprise would have been easier had the British not imported opium into China. Thus, in that sense, China “bore the burden of opium.”
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