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Title: Drugging a Nation
The Story of China and the Opium Curse

Author: Samuel Merwin

Release Date: August 30, 2010 [EBook #33586]

Language: English

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DRUGGING A NATION

[Illustration: H. E. TONG SHAO-I One of the Leaders of the Opium Reform
Movement in China]

Drugging a Nation

The Story of China
and the Opium Curse

A Personal Investigation, during an
Extended Tour, of the Present Conditions
of the Opium Trade in China
and Its Effects upon the Nation

By SAMUEL MERWIN

NEW YORK CHICAGO TORONTO
Fleming H. Revell Company
LONDON AND EDINBURGH

Copyright, 1908, by
FLEMING H. REVELL COMPANY

Copyright, 1907-1908, by
SUCCESS COMPANY

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NOTE

These chapters were originally published during 1907 and 1908 in _Success
Magazine_. Though frankly journalistic in tone, the book presents
something more than the hasty conclusions of a journalist. During its
preparation the author travelled around the world, inquiring into the
problem at first hand in China and in England, reading all available
printed matter which seemed to bear in any way on the subject, and
interviewing several hundred gentlemen who have had special opportunities
to study the problem from various standpoints. The writing was not begun
until this preliminary work was completed and the natural conclusions had
become convictions in the author's mind.

CONTENTS

I. CHINA'S PREDICAMENT 9

II. THE GOLDEN OPIUM DAYS 20

III. A GLIMPSE INTO AN OPIUM PROVINCE 53

IV. CHINA'S SINCERITY