Recovering histories life and labor after heroin in reform-era China

"Heroin first reached Gejiu, a Chinese city in southern Yunnan known as Tin Capital, in the 1980s. Widespread use of the drug, which for a short period became "easier to buy than vegetables," coincided with radical changes in the local economy caused by the marketization of the mining...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bartlett, Nicholas, 1978- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oakland, California University of California Press [2020]
Colección:Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.
Temas:
Heroin abuse > Social aspects > China > Gejiu.
Drug abuse > China > Gejiu > History.
Recovering addicts > Employment > China > Gejiu.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Drug abuse
Heroin abuse > Social aspects
China > Gejiu
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : towards a phenomenology of recovery
  • Mayhem on the mountains : the generational rush of heroin's arrival
  • Recovery as adaption : catching up to the post-rush private sector
  • Absence of a future : narrative, community and obsolescence
  • Idling in Mao's shadow : contesting the therapeutic value of socialist labor
  • Wedding for the future : ritual, relationships and the elusive quest for "return"
  • "From the community": civil society careers and the limits of phenomenology

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