Opium and China are synonymous, yet historians have so far failed to answer one key question: why was opium rather than cannabis or coffee so eagerly consumed? l Much has …
RK Newman - Modern Asian Studies, 1995 - cambridge.org
A social problem in one country may often be held up as an example to others, but it is rare for it to bring forth an internationally coordinated response with a world-wide application …
M Macauley - Late Imperial China, 2009 - muse.jhu.edu
Zhang Rui moved from Tianjin to Beijing to open a fish shop just inside the Desheng Gate. On a visit home to Tianjin in late November 1844, he encountered a boatman dealing in …
H Lu, DT Miethe, B Liang - 2009 - researchgate.net
In the context of global efforts to control the production, distribution and use of narcotic drugs, China's treatment of the problem provides an important means of understanding the …
Y Huang - History of Pharmacy and Pharmaceuticals, 2021 - hopp.uwpress.org
This article explores the arrival—and the use—of cocaine in China from the 1880s to the 1910s and argues that two groups were instrumental in the emergence of commerce in …
Opium and China are synonymous, yet historians have so far failed to answer one key question: why was opium rather than cannabis or coffee so eagerly consumed? This article …
B Liang, H Lu, MTD Miethe - 2013 - books.google.com
In the context of global efforts to control the production, distribution and use of narcotic drugs, China's treatment of the problem provides an important means of understanding the …
In the context of global efforts to control the production, distribution and use of narcotic drugs, China's treatment of the problem provides an important means of understanding the …
J Spence - European Intruders and Changes in Behaviour and …, 2017 - taylorfrancis.com
This chapter attempts to widen the area of debate by developing certain themes that show opium smoking as a phenomenon that radically affected all levels of Chinese society. Opium …