The Fall of the God of Money: Opium Smoking in Nineteenth-Century China
In this first truly cross-cultural study of opium, Keith McMahon considers the perspectives of both smokers and non-smokers from China and the Euro-West and from both sides of the issue of opium prohibition. The author stages a dramatic confrontation between the Chinese opium user and the Euro-Westerner who saw in opium the image of an uncanny Asiatic menace. The rise of the opium demon meant the fall of the god of money, that is, Chinese money, and the irreversible trend in which Confucianism gave way to Christianity. The book explores early Western observations of opium smoking, the formation of arguments for and against the legalization of…
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- ISBN: 978-0-7425-1803-2
- EAN: 9780742518032
- Produktnummer: 1444729
- Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2002
- Seitenangabe: 256 S.
- Masse: H22.8 cm x B16.0 cm x D1.5 cm 349 g
- Auflage: New
- Gewicht: 349
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