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Ouvrages (Ouvrage De Synthèse) Année : 2017

Living on Borrowed Time

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This comprehensive microhistory of opium in Canton from the late Qing to Republican period examines the infamous drug from the perspective of material, political, economic, and social history. Paulès traces the transformation of the drug from elite habit to national shame, arguing that the marginalization of opium occurred well before 1949. This monograph covers the drug's material history and practices, the contradictory politics and economics of opium revenue, the spaces of consumption, and anti-opium propanganda that created the image of the degenerate opium smoker.

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halshs-04101606 , version 1 (20-05-2023)

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Xavier Paulès. Living on Borrowed Time. Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley, pp.334, 2017, China Research Monographs, 978-1-55729-174-5. ⟨halshs-04101606⟩
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