Narcotic Culture: A History of Drugs in China by Lars Peter Laamann, Zhou Xun, Frank Dikötter

Narcotic Culture: A History of Drugs in China

Lars Peter Laamann, Zhou Xun, Frank Dikötter

331 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction history politics challenging informative slow-paced
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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 grip of dependence. Britain, in an effort to r...

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