Opium Regimes: China, Britain, and Japan, 1839-1952.(Book Review)

Journal of World History | June 1, 2004| | Copyright

Opium Regimes: China, Britain, and Japan, 1839-1952. Edited by TIMOTHY BROOK and BOB TADASHI WAKABAYASHI. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. 444 + xiv pp. $60.00 (cloth), $24.95 (paper).

In May 1997, an international group of scholars gathered in Toronto for a groundbreaking conference on opium in East Asia jointly sponsored by the University of Toronto and York University. The organizers of the conference, Timothy Brook and Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi, came up with the idea after discovering that opium was not only a topic of mutual interest, but also that ...

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