Zheng Yangwen (National University of Singapore)

The Social Life of Opium in China

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. August 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 414g
• ISBN-13: 9780521608565
• ISBN-10: 0521608562
• Artikelnr.: 21192130

Autorenporträt

Zheng Yangwen is Professor of Chinese History at the University of Manchester

Inhaltsangabe

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'.