Narcotic Culture: A History of Drugs in China

by Zhou Xun, Lars Peter Laamann, Frank Dikötter, et al.

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226149056
• ISBN13: 9780226149059
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 8.8"