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Narcotic Culture

Paperback • 2016 • 1. edition

Narcotic Culture

By Frank Dikötter, Zhou Xun, Lars Peter Laamann

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About the book

To this day, the perception persists that China was a civilisation defeated by imperialist Britain's most desirable trade commodity, opium - a drug that turned the Chinese into cadaverous addicts in the iron grip of dependence. But, as this new edition of Narcotic Culture brilliantly shows, the real scandal in Chinese history was not the expansion of the drug trade by Britain in the early nineteenth century, but rather the failure of the British to grasp the consequences of prohibition. They rev...Show more

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9781849044721

Publisher

C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd

Published year

2016

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1

Original title

Narcotic Culture

Format

Paperback

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