Lally, Jagjeet;
(2024)
Poppy in the Era of Prohibition: Smuggling and State Complicity in Upper Burma, c. 1890-1940.
Journal of Southeast Asian Studies
(In press).
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Abstract
In the decades following the Opium Wars (1839-42, 1856-60), there was a massive shift in the scale yet also the geographical core of China’s opium problem. What had been a problem in the coastal states and the southeast had not merely spread to become an empire-wide concern; it had become especially acute and unprecedentedly large in the landlocked fringes to the far west, southwest, and south. 1 Opium may have been a massive monopoly of the British Indian government, with Indian opium feeding a large proportion of global demand, but Chinese domestic production in Yunnan, Sichuan, and Guizhou was so large and found sale so widely across the country by the end of the century, that China had become the ‘world’s largest producer for the world’s largest market’.2
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Poppy in the Era of Prohibition: Smuggling and State Complicity in Upper Burma, c. 1890-1940 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Publisher version: | https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of... |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of History |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10194244 |
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