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Narcotic Culture: A History of Drugs in China by Frank Dikotter (English) Hardco
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- Book Title
- Narcotic Culture: A History of Drugs in China
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- 9780226149059
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- 2004
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- Textbook
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- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- Narcotic Culture: a History of Drugs in China
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- The University of Chicago Press
- Subject
- History, Healthcare System
- Number of Pages
- 256 Pages
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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 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, as Narcotic Culture brilliantly shows, the real scandal in Chinese history was not the expansion of the drug trade by Britain in the early nineteenth century, but rather the failure of the British to grasp the consequences of prohibition. In a stunning historical reversal, Frank Dikoetter, Lars Laamann, and Zhou Xun tell this different story of the relationship between opium and the Chinese. They reveal that opium actually had few harmful effects on either health or longevity; in fact, it was prepared and appreciated in highly complex rituals with inbuilt constraints preventing excessive use. Opium was even used as a medicinal panacea in China before the availability of aspirin and penicillin. But as a result of the British effort to eradicate opium, the Chinese turned from the relatively benign use of that drug to heroin, morphine, cocaine, and countless other psychoactive substances. Narcotic Culture provides abundant evidence that the transition from a tolerated opium culture to a system of prohibition produced a cure that was far worse than the disease. Delving into a history of drugs and their abuses, Narcotic Culture is part revisionist history of imperial and twentieth-century Britain and part sobering portrait of the dangers of prohibition.
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The University of Chicago Press
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9780226149059
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Narcotic Culture: a History of Drugs in China
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Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
History, Healthcare System
Publication Year
2004
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Textbook
Number of Pages
256 Pages
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