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256 pages • first pub 2004 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780226149059
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 16 April 2004
Description
To this day, the perception persists that China was a civilization 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. Britain, in an effor...
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256 pages • first pub 2004 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780226149059
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 16 April 2004
Description
To this day, the perception persists that China was a civilization 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. Britain, in an effor...
Community Reviews
Content Warnings