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Living on Borrowed Time: Opium in Canton, 1906-1936 Volume 74

Living on Borrowed Time: Opium in Canton, 1906-1936 Volume 74

Paperback

Series: China Research Monograph

Addiction & RecoveryChinese HistoryGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1557291748
ISBN13: 9781557291745
Publisher: Institute of East Asian Studies University of
Published: Feb 1 2017
Pages: 382
Weight: 1.13
Height: 0.85 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This comprehensive microhistory of opium in Canton from the late Qing to Republican period examines the infamous drug from the perspective of material, political, economic, and social history. Paulès traces the transformation of the drug from elite habit to national shame, arguing that the marginalization of opium occurred well before 1949. This monograph covers the drug's material history and practices, the contradictory politics and economics of opium revenue, the spaces of consumption, and anti-opium propanganda that created the image of the degenerate opium smoker. Translated from the original French, Histoire d'une drogue en sursis: L'opium à Canton, 1906-1936 (EHESS, 2010).

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