Abstract

LOPEZ RESTREPO, Andrés. THREE OPIUM REGIMES IN ASIA IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. anal.polit. [online]. 2022, vol.35, n.105, pp.313-335.  Epub May 05, 2023. ISSN 0121-4705.  https://doi.org/10.15446/anpol.v35n105.107761.

In East Asia, there is an old tradition to reject opium for religious and political reasons that took the form of prohibitions, which date back to the fourteenth century according to some sources but can only be dated with certainty from the eighteenth century. Since the end of this latter century, the Dutch and British forced the opening of markets for opium in Southeast Asia and China. The only country that remained on the sidelines was Japan. Based on these experiences, the study proposes identifying three different opium regimes in the region: full legalization in Southeast Asia, partial legalization in China, and prohibition in Japan. The article ends with some suggestions for the influence of these three models on global drug prohibitionism in the twentieth century.

Keywords : prohibition; opium; East Asia; China; Japan.

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