The social life of opium in China /
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2005.
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| Online Access: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=149824 |
Table of Contents:
- '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'