Prepared by the East Asian Institute, NUS, which promotes research on East Asian developments particularly the political, economic and social development of contemporary China (including Hong Kong and Taiwan), this series of research reports is intended for policy makers and readers who want to keep abreast of the latest developments in China.

This volume deals with the reemergence of the drug problem in China in the reform era and the ways in which the authorities deal with it. While highly successful in the 1950s, the effectiveness of the old methods has been called into question in the reform era of marketization and the country's increasing integration into the capitalistic world economy.