The Chinese opium smoker
Subtitle: twelve illustrations : facsimilies of native drawings with a translation of the original Chinese text accompanying them, and appendixes
Publisher: S.W. Partridge
Published: 1881
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Translated from: chi
Number of pages: 44
Subjects: Opium abuse
Description: The illustrations depict the gradual downfall of a opium smoker commencing with a man on a couch in his mansion, followed by images of the dissipation of the man who becomes a victim of the drug and eventually leaves home and becomes a homeless beggar. It's believed that the sketches were made by a Christian Chinaman named Tai and later published by the Chinese Anti-Opium Society of Canton. The pictures were sent to England and published with an English translation in the 1870s. This enlarged edition includes a letter by Commissioner Lin to the Queen of England. Reverend Frederick Storrs Turner was the founder of the Society for the Suppression of the Opium Trade, and the editor of the Society's newspaper "Friend of China.
Notes: "Reproduced from the Chinese."

"Price sixpence"

Forms part of the Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection.

Deposit, Julio Santo Domingo III, April 2012.

Spine ends chipped.
Table of contents: title: I. The Chinese opium-smoker. Twelve illustrations; title: Appendix I. Commissioner Lin's letter to the Queen of England; title: Appendix II. Prince King's letter to Sir R. Alcock; title: Appendix III. Li Hung Chang's letter to the Society for the Suppression of the Opium Trade; title: IV. General summary.