Narcotic Culture: A History of Drugs in China by Zhou Xun, Frank Dikötter, Lars Peter Laamann

Narcotic Culture: A History of Drugs in China

Zhou Xun, Frank Dikötter, Lars Peter Laamann

331 pages • 2004

2 editions

nonfiction history politics challenging informative slow-paced
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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 grip of dependence. Britain, in an effort to r...

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