Did the Opium Wars influence modern East Asian, specifically China's strict prohibition of drugs today?

by eward17

Doing an essay regarding this topic, if anyone can share any scholarly papers or articles on the topic, that would be very helpful.

EnclavedMicrostate

Perhaps the best volume on the topic is Opium Regimes: China, Britain, and Japan, 1839-1952, edited by Timothy Brook and Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi, which has chapters discussing opium policy, opium culture and the economics of opium in Britain, China, Japan and Hong Kong in the 19th and 20th centuries. Part III, 'Control and Resistance', and Part IV, 'Crisis and Resolution', are likely the most relevant to your requirements, with chapters being:

    1. R. Bin Wong, 'Opium and Modern Chinese State-Making'
    1. Judith Wyman, 'Opium and the State in Late-Qing Sichuan'
    1. Joyce A. Madancy, 'Poppies, Patriotism, and the Public Sphere: Nationalism and State Leadership in the Anti-Opium Crusade in Fujian, 1906–1916'
    1. Edward R. Slack Jr., 'The National Anti-Opium Association and the Guomindang State, 1924–1937'
    1. Alan Baumler, 'Opium Control versus Opium Suppression: The Origins of the 1935 Six-Year Plan to Eliminate Opium and Drugs'
    1. Lucien Bianco, 'The Responses of Opium Growers to Eradication Campaigns and the Poppy Tax, 1907–1949'
    1. Timothy Brook, 'Opium and Collaboration in Central China, 1938–1940'
    1. Motohiro Kobayashi, 'An Opium Tug-of-War: Japan versus the Wang Jingwei Regime'
    1. Mark S. Eykholt, 'Resistance to Opium as a Social Evil in Wartime China'
    1. Zhou Yongming, 'Nationalism, Identity, and State-Building: The Antidrug Crusade in the People’s Republic, 1949–1952'
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