@book {37377, title = {Opium{\textquoteright}s Long Shadow: From Asian Revolt to Global Drug Control}, year = {2018}, pages = {384}, publisher = {Harvard University Press }, organization = {Harvard University Press }, edition = {1}, address = {Cambridge, Massachusetts}, abstract = {The League of Nations Advisory Committee on the Traffic in Opium and Other Dangerous Drugs, created in 1920, culminated almost eight decades of political turmoil over opium trafficking, which was by far the largest state-backed drug trade in the age of empire. Opponents of opium had long struggled to rein in the profitable drug. Opium{\textquoteright}s Long Shadow shows how diverse local protests crossed imperial, national, and colonial boundaries to gain traction globally and harness public opinion as a moral deterrent in international politics after World War I.Steffen Rimner traces the far-flung itineraries and trenchant arguments of reformers{\textemdash}significantly, feminists and journalists{\textemdash}who viewed opium addiction as a root cause of poverty, famine, {\textquotedblleft}white slavery,{\textquotedblright} and moral degradation. These activists targeted the international reputation of drug-trading governments, first and foremost Great Britain, British India, and Japan, becoming pioneers of the global political tactic we today call naming and shaming. But rather than taking sole responsibility for their own behavior, states in turn appropriated anti-drug criticism to shame fellow sovereigns around the globe. Consequently, participation in drug control became a prerequisite for membership in the twentieth-century international community. Rimner relates how an aggressive embrace of anti-drug politics earned China and other Asian states new influence on the world stage.The link between drug control and international legitimacy has endured. Amid fierce contemporary debate over the wisdom of narcotics policies, the 100-year-old moral consensus Rimner describes remains a backbone of the international order.}, url = {https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674976306}, author = {Rimner, Steffen} } @article {648387, title = {Chinese abolitionism: the Chinese Educational Mission in Connecticut, Cuba, and Peru}, journal = {Journal of Global History}, volume = {11}, number = {3}, year = {2016}, pages = {344-364}, abstract = {This article explores a little known facet of transnational opposition to forced labour through the earliest case of {\textquoteleft}Chinese abolitionism{\textquoteright}. It analyses the transnational formation of the first Sino-American actor network in the United States and its deployment in the 1874 investigations of coolie conditions in the forced labour regimes of Cuba and Peru. At the core of this actor network was the Chinese Educational Mission and its milieu of sociability, which served as a crucible of transnational cooperation between the first Chinese America experts and their US supporters. The flows of information, cosmopolitan ideas, and personnel across this network led to an unprecedented reinterpretation of the global coolie trade as a key concern in Qing foreign relations and a serious international problem that paralleled the problem of slavery. Two Qing interventions harnessed the actor network{\textquoteright}s social capital, framing coolie abuse as an international atrocity, accelerating the abolition of the coolie trade, and signalling the need for a Chinese Foreign Service in Western countries for the protection of Chinese overseas.}, url = {https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-global-history/article/chinese-abolitionism-the-chinese-educational-mission-in-connecticut-cuba-and-peru/7091745C785460E79C6DC69F368A92BB}, author = {Rimner, Steffen} } @inbook {73441, title = {Beyond the Call of Duty: Cosmopolitan Education and the Origins of Asian-American Women{\textquoteright}s Medicine}, booktitle = {Asia Pacific in the Age of Globalization, ed. Robert David Johnson}, year = {2015}, publisher = {Palgrave Macmillan}, organization = {Palgrave Macmillan}, address = {New York}, author = {Rimner, Steffen} } @booklet {104211, title = {Min Tian, Mei Lanfang and the Twentieth-century International Stage (review)}, journal = {Modern Art Asia}, volume = {15 (Aug. 2013)}, year = {2013}, author = {Rimner, Steffen} } @article {44246, title = {Juergen Osterhammel, Die Verwandlung der Welt. Eine Geschichte des 19. Jahrhunderts [The Transformation of the World: A History of the 19th Century] (review)}, journal = {New Global Studies}, volume = {6, 3 (2012)}, year = {2012}, author = {Rimner, Steffen} }