The fall of the god of money : opium smoking in nineteenth-century China
A cross-cultural study of opium in 19th-century China. It explores early Western observations of opium smoking, the formation of arguments for and against the legalization of opium, the portrayals of opium smoking in Chinese poetry and prose, and scenes of opium-smoking interactions in China.
Print Book, English, ©2002
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Lanham, ©2002
History
xi, 249 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780742518025, 9780742518032, 0742518027, 0742518035
48951278
Chapter 1 Introduction to "Western Smoke" Chapter 2 A Short History of Opium Smoking in China Chapter 3 Westerners' Intercourse with China Chapter 4 Westerners on Opium and The Chinese Chapter 5 Zhang Changjia's Yanhua, Opium Talk (1878) Chapter 6 Eaten by Wild Dogs: Opium in Late Qing Fiction Chapter 7 "Why the Chinese Smoked Opium" Chapter 8 Appendix: Yanhua, "Opium Talk," by Zhang Changjia of Jinshan County, Jiangsu Province