The Fall of the God of Money: Opium Smoking in Nineteenth-Century China by Keith McMahon

The Fall of the God of Money: Opium Smoking in Nineteenth-Century China

Keith McMahon

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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 confrontat...

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