Intoxicating Manchuria: Alcohol, Opium, and Culture in China's Northeast (Contemporary Chinese Studies) - Softcover

Smith, Norman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0774824298 ISBN 13: 9780774824293

Verlag: University of British Columbia Press, 2013

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"This is an extremely important book. Norman Smith makes major contributions both to the larger literature on global narcotics use, as well as to the study of the Manchukuo period of Asian history. He also brings to light valuable insights into the nagging question about Japan's anti-opium policy: Why did Japanese officials in Manchukuo seem to promote opium, while simultaneously trying to curb its use?" - Kathryn Meyer, author of Webs of Smoke: Warlords, Gangsters, Spies and the History of the International Drug Trade ""Intoxicating Manchuria" is engaging, well written, and artfully argued. Norman Smith's analysis of the role that alcohol played in Manchurian society is both intellectually stimulating and part of a fascinating narrative. It is social history at its best: explaining the ways that people lived their lives in the context of changing political regimes. I know no other book that does this for the region under study, or indeed for any region." - James Carter, Chief Editor, Twentieth-Century China

Reseña del editor:

Intoxicating Manchuria is written for students and scholars of Chinese, Japanese, and Manchurian cultural history. Its engaging, readable style will appeal to anyone interested in colonial studies, addiction, and twentieth-century China.

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• Verlag: University of British Columbia Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0774824298
• ISBN 13: 9780774824293
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 312