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Narcotic Culture

- A History of Drugs in China
Af: Lars Peter Laamann, Frank Dikotter, Zhou Xun Engelsk Paperback

Narcotic Culture

- A History of Drugs in China
Af: Lars Peter Laamann, Frank Dikotter, Zhou Xun Engelsk Paperback
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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 reveal that opium actually had few harmful effects on either health or longevity; in fact, it was prepared and appreciated in highly complex rituals with inbuilt constraints preventing excessive use. Opium was even used as a medicinal panacea in China before the availability of aspirin and penicillin. But as a result of the British effort to eradicate opium, the Chinese turned from the relatively benign use of that drug to heroin, morphine, cocaine, and countless other psychoactive substances. The transition from a tolerated opium culture to a system of prohibition produced a ''cure'' that was far worse than the disease. Delving into a history of drugs and their abuses, Narcotic Culture is part revisionist history of imperial and twentieth-century Britain and part sobering portrait of the dangers of prohibition.
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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 reveal that opium actually had few harmful effects on either health or longevity; in fact, it was prepared and appreciated in highly complex rituals with inbuilt constraints preventing excessive use. Opium was even used as a medicinal panacea in China before the availability of aspirin and penicillin. But as a result of the British effort to eradicate opium, the Chinese turned from the relatively benign use of that drug to heroin, morphine, cocaine, and countless other psychoactive substances. The transition from a tolerated opium culture to a system of prohibition produced a ''cure'' that was far worse than the disease. Delving into a history of drugs and their abuses, Narcotic Culture is part revisionist history of imperial and twentieth-century Britain and part sobering portrait of the dangers of prohibition.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 288
ISBN-13: 9781849044721
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 1849044724
Kategori: China
Udg. Dato: 5 maj 2016
Længde: 20mm
Bredde: 143mm
Højde: 215mm
Forlag: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Oplagsdato: 5 maj 2016
Forfatter(e): Lars Peter Laamann, Frank Dikotter, Zhou Xun
Forfatter(e) Lars Peter Laamann, Frank Dikotter, Zhou Xun

Kategori China

ISBN-13 9781849044721

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 288

Udgave

Længde 20mm

Bredde 143mm

Højde 215mm

Udg. Dato 5 maj 2016

Oplagsdato 5 maj 2016

Forlag C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd

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