The Social life of opium in China / Zheng Yangwen
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TextPublication details: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2005Description: xiii, 241p, 23cmISBN: - 0521846080
- 306.1 YAN
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The book explores the history of opium consumption in China from 1483 to the late twentieth century. The story begins in the mid-Ming dynasty, when opium was sent as a gift by vassal states and used as an aphrodisiac in court. Over time, the Chinese people from different classes and regions began to use it for recreational purposes, so beginning a complex culture of opium consumption. The book traces this transformation over a period of five hundred years, asking who introduced opium to China, and how it spread throughout all sections of society, embraced by rich and poor alike as a culture and an institution.
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