Chinas War on Smuggling - Law, Economic Life, and the Making of the Modern State, 18421965

Philip Thai chronicles the vicissitudes of smuggling in modern China to demonstrate how defiance helped the state redefine its power. Chinäs War on Smuggling traces how different regimes sought to police maritime trade and the unintended consequences their campaigns unleashed, offering new insights into social, legal, and economic history.

List of 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

About the author

Philip Thai is associate professor of history and Asian studies and director of the Asian Studies Program at Northeastern University.

Summary

Philip Thai chronicles the vicissitudes of smuggling in modern China to demonstrate how defiance helped the state redefine its power. China’s War on Smuggling traces how different regimes sought to police maritime trade and the unintended consequences their campaigns unleashed, offering new insights into social, legal, and economic history.

Additional text

A remarkable history of the Chinese state’s war against coastal smuggling from the mid-nineteenth through the mid-twentieth centuries.

Product details

• Authors: Philip Thai
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2021
• EAN: 9780231185851
• ISBN: 978-0-231-18585-1
• No. of pages: 408
• Series: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; China, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, 20th Century, HISTORY / World, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Asia / China, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, General & world history, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Asian History, General and world history, Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology