The social life of opium in China /
"In a broad-ranging narrative, Zheng Yangwen's 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 Chine...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2005.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 'The art of alchemists, sex and court ladies'
- As the empire changed hands
- 'The age of calicoes and tea and opium'
- 'A hobby among the high and the low in officialdom'
- Taste-making and trendsetting
- The political redefinition of opium consumption
- Outward and downward 'liquidation'
- 'The volume of smoke and powder'
- 'The unofficial history of the poppy'
- Opiate of the people
- The road to St. Louis
- 'Shanghai vice'