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Social Life of Opium in China

English · Hardback

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Informationen zum Autor Zheng Yangwen is a Research Fellow at the Asia Research Institute of the National University of Singapore. She received her PhD from Cambridge University in 2001. Klappentext Traces the transformation of opium from medicine to narcotic over a period of five hundred years. Zusammenfassung Tracing the transformation of opium from medicine to narcotic over a period of five hundred years! asking who introduced opium to China! how it spread across all sections of society. Accompanied by a fascinating collection of illustrations! this study offers a vivid and alternative perspective on life in China. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. 'The art of alchemists, sex and court ladies'; 2. As the Empire changed hands; 3. 'The age of calicos and tea and opium'; 4. 'A hobby among the high and the low and the officialdom'; 5. Taste-making and trend-setting; 6. The political redefinition of opium consumption; 7. Outward and downward 'liquidation'; 8. 'The volume of smoke and powder'; 9. 'The unofficial history of the poppy'; 10. The opiate of the people; 11. The road to St. Louis; 12. 'Shanghai vice'.

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Authors Zheng Yangwen, Zheng (National University of Singapore) Yangwen
Publisher Cambridge University Press ELT
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 08.09.2005
 
EAN 9780521846080
ISBN 978-0-521-84608-0
No. of pages 256
Subjects Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous
Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries

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