Narcotic Culture A History of Drugs in China

Name: Narcotic Culture A History of Drugs in China
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ISBN: 9780226149059

ISBN-10: 0226149056

ISBN-13: 9780226149059

Edition: 2004

Authors: Frank Dikï¿½tter, Lars Laamann, Zhou Xun, Frank Dikï¿½tter

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To this day, the perception persists that China was a civilization defeated by imperialist Britain's most desirable trade commodity, opium—a drug that turned the Chinese into cadaverous addicts in the iron grip of dependence. Britain, in an effort to reverse the damage caused by opium addiction, launched its own version of the "war on drugs," which lasted roughly sixty years, from 1880 to World War II and the beginning of Chinese communism. But, as Narcotic Culture brilliantly shows, the real scandal in Chinese history was not the expansion of the drug trade by Britain in the early nineteenth century, but rather the failure of the British to grasp the consequences of prohibition.In a…

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List price: $49.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 4/16/2004
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

Frank Dikï¿½tter is Chair Professor of Humanities at the University of Hong Kong. Before moving to Asia in 2006, he was Professor of the Modern History of China at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He has published nine books about the history of China, including Mao's Great Famine, which won the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction in 2011.http://www.frankdikotter.com/



Acknowledgments


Conventions



Introduction



The Global Spread of Psychoactive Substances (c.1600-1900)



Opium before the 'Opium War' (c.1600-1840)



Opium for the People: Status, Space and Consumption (c. 1840-1940)



'The Best Possible and Sure Shield': Opium, Disease and Epidemics (c. 1840-1940)



War on Drugs: Prohibition and the Rise of Narcophobia (c. 1880-1940)



Curing the Addict: Prohibition and Detoxification



Pills and Powders: The Spread of Semi-Synthetic Opiates (c. 1900-1940)



Needle Lore: The Syringe in China (c. 1890-1950)



China's Other Drugs (c. 1900-1950)



Conclusion


Bibliography


Character List


Index