Poppies and Politics in China: Sichuan Province, 1840s to 1940s

From the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Sichuan Province was the largest opium-producing region in the largest opium-producing country, China. This book uses a chronological approach to describe and explain the rise and fall of opium in Sichuan. Through discussing the growth of opium production, the government policies toward opium and its usage, the impacts of opium on Sichuan politics and people's lives, it tries to show how Sichuan's economic, social, and psychological mili…