CONTENTS

A NOTE ON WEIGHTS AND CURRENCIES

PROLOGUE

PART I: THE RISE OF CONTROL

1 FORBIDDEN CITIES

2 OPIUM WARS

3 PARADISE LOST?

4 SHANGHAI AND THE HAGUE

PART II: PROHIBITION TRIUMPHANT

5 GANGSTERS

6 DRUG PROHIBITION AT ITS ZENITH

7 OVERREACH

PART III: THE SYSTEM CHALLENGED

8 DRUG LORDS

9 THE CONSENSUS CRUMBLES

10 OPIATE OVERDOSE

CLOSING OBSERVATIONS

APPENDIX I: OPIUM SMOKER NUMBERS IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY CHINA

APPENDIX II: LEAGUE-ERA OPIUM REGIME STATISTICS

APPENDIX III: POST-WAR DRUG SEIZURES

REFERENCES

FURTHER READING

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

INDEX