China's War on Smuggling : : Law, Economic Life, and the Making of the Modern State, 1842-1965 / / Philip Thai.
Smuggling along the Chinese coast has been a thorn in the side of many regimes. From opium and weapons concealed aboard foreign steamships in the Qing dynasty to nylon stockings and wristwatches trafficked in the People's Republic, contests between state and smuggler have exerted a surprising b...
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Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2018] ©2018 |
Year of Publication: | 2018 |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource :; 19 illustrations and 5 maps -Waiting on a higher-resolution version of image 4.1.Additional information re: illustrations layout in Notes field. |
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