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This comprehensive microhistory of opium in Canton from the late Qing to Republican period examines the infamous drug from the perspective of material, political, economic, and social history. Paulès traces the transformation of the drug from elite habit to national shame, arguing that the marginalization of opium occurred well before 1949. This monograph covers the drug's material history and practices, the contradictory politics and economics of opium revenue, the spaces of consumption, and anti-opium propanganda that created the image of the degenerate opium smoker. Translated from the original French, Histoire d'une drogue en sursis: L'opium à Canton, 1906–1936 (EHESS, 2010).
Price: $32.00
Pages: 382
Publisher: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Imprint: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Series: China Research Monograph
Publication Date:
01 February 2017
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9781557291745
Format: Paperback
Xavier Paulès is the director of the Centre d'études sur la Chine moderne et contemporaine (CECMC) at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Science Sociales (EHESS) in Paris, France. His research focuses on the urban history of contemporary China and the history of opium and gambling. He has published in French, English, and Chinese.
Noel Castelino specializes in translations from French to English for academic publications relating to Chinese studies. His translations include Christian Henriot's Shanghai, 1927-1937 (UC Press, 1993) and Prostitution and Sexuality in Shanghai (Cambridge UP, 2001).
Noel Castelino specializes in translations from French to English for academic publications relating to Chinese studies. His translations include Christian Henriot's Shanghai, 1927-1937 (UC Press, 1993) and Prostitution and Sexuality in Shanghai (Cambridge UP, 2001).
Acknowledgements
Romanization
Currency and Weights
Introduction
1. The Material and Structural History
2. Opium Eradication as a Feasible Goal, 1906-1923
3. An Indispensable Source of Revenue, 1923–1936
4. The Geography of Consumption
5. Life in the Opium Houses
6. Opium in the Collective Mind during the Republican Period: The Imperfect Victory of Propaganda
7. An X-ray of the Opium Smoker
Conclusion
Biographies
Sources and Bibliography
Index of Names and Glossary
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