History of the Opium problem : the assault on the East, ca. 1600-1950 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Derks, Hans, 1938-
Corporate Author:	ebrary, Inc
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.
Series:	Sinica Leidensia ; v. 105.
Subjects:	Opium abuse > Asia > History. Opium trade > Asia > History. East and West. Imperialism > Social aspects. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

PREFACE; PREFACE; Acknowledgements; Acknowledgements; LIST of ILLUSTRATIONS, TABLES, FIGURES and MAPS; LIST of ILLUSTRATIONS, TABLES, FIGURES and MAPS; ILLUSTRATIONS; PART ONE THE OPIUM PROBLEM; INTRODUCTION; THE POLITICS OF GUILT; THE "ORIGINAL SIN"; CONCLUSIONs; PART TWO THE BRITISH ASSAULT; the actual sins; A Private English Asian Trading Company; Opium on a List; A Moral Question; TEA FOR OPIUM Vice Versa; An Analysis from Within; The Bullion Game; The Decision; Opium Shipping; Opium Smuggling; Opium Corruption; Religion as Opium; Opium Banking in a Crown Colony; Exorbitant Opium Revenues.
On the Chinese Side INDIAN PROFITS; Monopoly Opium Production; Monopoly Smuggling; A Western Competitor; Narco-business Revenues; THE INVENTION OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM PROBLEM; Questions; An English Home Market for Drugs; The Creation of the English Opium Problem; A FIRST REFLECTION; PART THREE THE DUTCH ASSAULT; PORTUGUESE LESSONS; Portuguese Elite versus Portuguese Folk; Arab Trade in Peace; On the Malabar Coast; What Did the Dutch learn about Opium from the Portuguese?
11. Pepper for Opium Vice Versa
12. The Bengal Scene
The Dutch Connection
Mughal Production and Consumption
13. The "Violent Opium Company" (VOC) in the East
A "Heart of Darkness" avant la lettre
The Dutch Opium Image
Laudanum Paracelsi
The Sailor's Health
The Asiatic Opium Image of the Dutch
Double Dutch Violence
Monopoly Wars
Empire Building
The Banda Case and all that
Other 17th-century Violence
Continuous Dutch Violence
Dutch Opium Trade: General Questions
The Indigenous Producers
Opium Consumption in the East Indies
14. The Amphioen Society and the End of the VOC
A Brilliant Economist?
The AS Performance
15. The Chinese, the VOC and the Opium
Murder in Batavia
Birth of a Chinese Hate?
Chinese as Victims
Chinese and Early Opium Trade
16. From Trade Monopoly into Narco-State Monopoly.
A Transformation from Private into Public Interest
The Four Van Hogendorps as Opium Dealers
The Birth of a Narco-military State
17. Tin for Opium, Opium for Tin?
The Opium Business of Billiton
18. Public Adventures of a Private State within the State
A Royal Opium Dealer
The State within the (Colonial) State
19. The Opium Regime of the Dutch (Colonial State), 1850-1950
The Outer Districts
The Bali Case
The Opiumregie
The Dutch Cocaine Industry
Legal Hypocrisy
A Double Dutch End
20. Profits
The Opium Farmer
The Colonial State as Farmer
21. Reflections
pt. FOUR THE FRENCH ASSAULT
22. Opium in and for La Douce France
Parisian Fumes
The French Pharmaceutical Scene
Drags from abroad
23. The French Colonial Scene in Southeast Asia
The Beginning of a Disaster
The French Opium Performance
Revenue Farming
The Opiumregie
The French Concession in Shanghai
The End of a Disaster
Contents note continued: 24. The Southeast Asian Context
Introduction
From "Golden Triangle" to "Bloody Quadrangle"
The Tribal Scene
The Shan State
The Hmong Tribe
Consumption Pattern
Myanmar (Burma)
Thailand (Siam)
Malaysia (Melaka, Malacca) and Singapore
25. The Role of the Chinese in Southeast Asia
About an "Identity" of Chinese Migrants
The Chinese Settle(ment) Strategy
The (pre- )History of the Chinese Opium Performance
Asian Trade
` ... their industry and economy ... '
The 19th-century
The Rich "Overseas Chinese" and Opium Criminality
The Rich
Criminality
26. Reflections
pt. FIVE THE NEW IMPERIALISTS
27. Japan
A Domestic Opium Problem
The Annexation of Formosa/Taiwan
A Former Formosa
A "New Formosa"
The Korean Case
The Opium attack on China
The `Roaring Twenties'
From World Economic Crisis to World War II
World War II and after
North China
Nanjing China
Hong Kong.
Southeast Asia
A Reflection
28. United States of America
A Domestic Opium Problem from the Early 19th-century?
Rise and Direct Decline of "Free Trade"
American-Chinese Opium relations, 1800-ca. 1865
The "Mystery" of the Chinese Opium Import
The Creation of a Chinese Threat after 1911
A first "War on Drugs" and its Limitations
The Philippine Case
Early 20th-century Opium and Cocaine Consumption
A Basic Drink
Basic Knowledge
A Mega Consumption
Cocaine Connections
Basic Instincts
29.A Reflection
pt. SIX THE VICTIMS
30. Blaming the Chinese Victims
Introduction
An original image
The Addict "by nature"
Who and How in the Chinese Opium Scene
The Religious Assault
Racism
31. The West and its Opium Import in China
A British Inspector ...
... and his American Heirs
32. Opium Production and Consumption in China
The Healers and the Poppy
The Judge and the Poppy
Chinese Republican Opium Production
Yunnan Opium Production and Trade
Chinese Opium Consumption
About Opium Gangsters
KMT Opium Activities
A Mao Opium Case?
33.A Reflection
pt. SEVEN THE STORY OF THE SNAKE AND ITS TAIL
The Problem
Its History
Interpretation History
Interpretation Problem
What Could Be Done?
APPENDICES
Appendix 1 From Rags to Riches to Rags, ca. 1775-1914
Costs of the first treatments
Production of opium in India and its market prices
The work in a British opium factory in India
Public sales
Exports of Indian opium
Destinations
EIC ships from Calcutta to Canton, 1775-1820
Import trade of Canton, 1833
Prices of opium, 1800-1914
Appendix 2 The Dutch Opium Import, 1678-1816
Appendix 3 The Amphioen Society Swindle
Appendix 4 From VOC Opium to Raffles' Heritage
Appendix 5 The French and Dutch Opium Factories
GLOSSARY
BIBLIOGRAPHY.