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David Anthony Bello. Opium and the Limits of Empire: Drug Prohibition in the Chinese Interior, 1729–1850. (Harvard East Asian Monographs, number 241.) Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center. 2005. Pp. xxi, 361. $50.00.

Historical research on the Chinese opium question has certainly moved beyond the narrow confines of the Sino-British war (1840–1842) to broader historiographical and theoretical issues. Recent contributors to the new scholarship include Edward Slack, Joyce Madancy, Frank Dikötter, et al. and now, David Anthony Bello. Unlike most authors on the subject, Bello tracks the opium trails in China's western and southwestern landlocked border regions and attempts a multiple ethnic-geographic "reorientation" from the Han-dominated core of China proper to Xinjiang (Eastern Turkestan) and the Yunnan, Guizhou, and Sichuan provinces, from the Euro-American traffickers to a mixed cast of Han, Muslim, tribal, and Central Asian smugglers and poppy cultivators. His work fills an important gap in the literature and illustrates successfully, through the travails of the Qing prohibition campaign, the "limits of empire."

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