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Authors: Frank Dikotter, Lars Laamann, Zhou Xun

Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press

Keywords: Popular Drugs

Rubric: Drug books

ISBN: 0226149056

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 iron grip of dependence. Britain, in an effort to reverse the damage caused by opium addiction, launched its own version of the "war on drugs, " which lasted roughly sixty years, from 1880 to World War II and the beginning of Chinese communism. But, as 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.In a…

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