Introducing China’s War on Smuggling: Law, Economic Life, and the Making of the Modern State, 1842–1965

This week, our featured book is China’s War on Smuggling: Law, Economic Life, and the Making of the Modern State, 1842–1965, by Philip Thai!  Today we are happy provide an excerpt from the books introduction.

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