Opium and the Limits of Empire - Drug Prohibition in the Chinese Interior, 1729–1850 - David Anthony Bello - Hardback Bog - Harvard University Press -

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This book examines the Chinese opium crisis from the perspective of Qing prohibition efforts. The author argues that opium prohibition, and not the opium wars, was genuinely imperial in scale and is hence much more representative of the actual drug problem faced by Qing administrators.