Narcotic Culture
Subtitle: A History of Drugs in China
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: April 16, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780226149059
Subjects: Drug addiction & substance abuse; History of specific subjects; History - General History; History: World; China; Asia - China; Popular Culture - Counter Culture; History / China; General; Drug addiction; Drug control; History; Narcotics, Control of; Opium abuse
First sentence: In the Cambridge History of China John King Fairbank, doyen of modern Chinese studies, characterised the opium trade as 'the most long-continued and systematic international crime of modern times'.