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 |
| Language: | English |
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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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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Maps, Tables, and Figures
- Acknowledgments
- INTRODUCTION
- 1. COASTAL COMMERCE AND IMPERIAL LEGACIES: Smuggling and Interdiction in the Treaty Port Legal Order
- 2. TARIFF AUTONOMY AND ECONOMIC CONTROL: The Intellectual Lineage of the Smuggling Epidemic
- 3. STATE INTERVENTIONS AND LEGAL TRANSFORMATIONS: Asserting Sovereignty in the War on Smuggling
- 4. SHADOW ECONOMIES AND POPULAR ANXIETIES: The Business of Smuggling in Operation and Imagination
- 5. ECONOMIC BLOCKADES AND WARTIME TRAFFICKING: Clandestine Political Economies Under Competing Sovereignties
- 6. STATE REBUILDING AND NEW SMUGGLING GEOGRAPHIES: Restoring and Evading Economic Controls in Civil War China
- 7. OLD MENACE IN NEW CHINA: Symbiotic Economies in the Early People's Republic
- CONCLUSION
- Character List
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index