TY - BOOK AU - Thai,Philip TI - China's war on smuggling: law, economic life, and the making of the modern state, 1842-1965 T2 - Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University SN - 9780231546362 AV - HJ7071 .T43 2018 U1 - 364.1/336095109041 23 PY - 2018///] CY - New York PB - Columbia University Press KW - Smuggling KW - China KW - History KW - Customs administration KW - Contrebande KW - Chine KW - Histoire KW - Douanes KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE KW - Criminology KW - bisacsh KW - Commerce KW - fast KW - Schmuggel KW - gnd KW - Wirtschaftspolitik KW - Öffentlicher Sektor KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-366) and index; 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 N2 - Smuggling along the Chinese coast has been a thorn in the side of many regimes. From opium concealed aboard foreign steamships in the Qing dynasty to consumer commodities like nylon stockings and wristwatches trafficked in the People's Republic, contests between state and smuggler have exerted a surprising but crucial influence on the political economy of modern China. Seeking to consolidate domestic authority and confront foreign challenges, the state introduced tighter regulations, higher taxes, and harsher enforcement. These interventions sparked widespread defiance, triggering further coercive measures: smuggling simultaneously threatened the state's power while inviting repression that strengthened its authority. Philip Thai chronicles the vicissitudes of smuggling in modern China-its practice, suppression, and significance-to demonstrate the intimate link between coastal smuggling and the amplification of state power. China's War on Smuggling shows that the fight against smuggling was not a simple law enforcement problem but rather an impetus to centralize and expand regime control. The smuggling epidemic gave Chinese states pretext to define legal and illegal behavior, and the resulting constraints on consumption and movement remade everyday life for individuals, merchants, and communities UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1821365 ER -