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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Bartlett, Nicholas, 1978- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oakland, California University of California Press [2020]
Series:Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.
Subjects:
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
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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