The Social Life of Opium in China
Title | The Social Life of Opium in China PDF eBook |
Author | Yangwen Zheng |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 268 |
Release | 2005-09-08 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780521846080 |
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The Social Life of Opium in China
Title | The Social Life of Opium in China PDF eBook |
Author | Yangwen Zheng |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 241 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Opium abuse |
ISBN | 9780511125669 |
Social Life of the Chinese
Title | Social Life of the Chinese PDF eBook |
Author | Justus Doolittle |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | China |
ISBN | 9780710307538 |
First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Social Life of Opium in China
Title | The Social Life of Opium in China PDF eBook |
Author | Zheng Yangwen |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 266 |
Release | 2005-09-08 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781139446174 |
In a remarkable and broad-ranging narrative, Yangwen Zheng'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 Chinese people from different classes and regions began to use it for recreational purposes, so beginning a complex culture of opium consumption. The book traces this transformation over a period of five hundred years, asking who introduced opium to China, how it spread across all sections of society, embraced by rich and poor alike as a culture and an institution. The book, which is accompanied by a fascinating collection of illustrations, will appeal to students and scholars of history, anthropology, sociology, political science, economics, and all those with an interest in China.
Imperial Twilight
Title | Imperial Twilight PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen R. Platt |
Publisher | Vintage |
Total Pages | 592 |
Release | 2018-05-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0307961745 |
As China reclaims its position as a world power, Imperial Twilight looks back to tell the story of the country’s last age of ascendance and how it came to an end in the nineteenth-century Opium War. As one of the most potent turning points in the country’s modern history, the Opium War has since come to stand for everything that today’s China seeks to put behind it. In this dramatic, epic story, award-winning historian Stephen Platt sheds new light on the early attempts by Western traders and missionaries to “open” China even as China’s imperial rulers were struggling to manage their country’s decline and Confucian scholars grappled with how to use foreign trade to China’s advantage. The book paints an enduring portrait of an immensely profitable—and mostly peaceful—meeting of civilizations that was destined to be shattered by one of the most shockingly unjust wars in the annals of imperial history. Brimming with a fascinating cast of British, Chinese, and American characters, this riveting narrative of relations between China and the West has important implications for today’s uncertain and ever-changing political climate.
Opium, Empire and the Global Political Economy
Title | Opium, Empire and the Global Political Economy PDF eBook |
Author | Carl Trocki |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 226 |
Release | 2012-11-12 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 113511899X |
Drug epidemics are clearly not just a peculiar feature of modern life; the opium trade in the nineteenth century tells us a great deal about Asian herion traffic today. In an age when we are increasingly aware of large scale drug use, this book takes a long look at the history of our relationship with mind-altering substances. Engagingly written, with lay readers as much as specialists in mind, this book will be fascinating reading for historians, social scientists, as well as those involved in Asian studies, or economic history.
Opium and Empire in Southeast Asia
Title | Opium and Empire in Southeast Asia PDF eBook |
Author | A. Wright |
Publisher | Springer |
Total Pages | 214 |
Release | 2013-11-21 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1137317604 |
This study investigates the connections between opium policy and imperialism in Burma. It examines what influenced the imperial regime's opium policy decisions, such as racial ideologies, the necessity of articulating a convincing rationale for British governance, and Burma's position in multiple imperial and transnational networks.