The Social Life of Opium in ChinaCambridge University Press, 2005年9月8日 - 241 頁 In a remarkable and broad-ranging narrative, Yangwen Zheng's book explores the history of opium consumption in China from 1483 to the late twentieth century. The story begins in the mid-Ming dynasty, when opium was sent as a gift by vassal states and used as an aphrodisiac in court. Over time, the Chinese people from different classes and regions began to use it for recreational purposes, so beginning a complex culture of opium consumption. The book traces this transformation over a period of five hundred years, asking who introduced opium to China, how it spread across all sections of society, embraced by rich and poor alike as a culture and an institution. The book, which is accompanied by a fascinating collection of illustrations, will appeal to students and scholars of history, anthropology, sociology, political science, economics, and all those with an interest in China. |
內容
Contents Introduction 1 The art of alchemists sex and court | 1 |
As the Empire changed hands | 2 |
The age of calicoe and tea and opium | 3 |
The art of alchemists sex and court ladies | 10 |
As the empire changed hands | 25 |
The age of calicoes and tea and opium | 41 |
A hobby among the high and the low | 56 |
the officialdom | 66 |
Outward and downward liquidation | 101 |
The volume of smoke and powder | 116 |
The unofficial history of the poppy | 131 |
Opiate of the people | 146 |
The road to St Louis | 164 |
Shanghai vice | 186 |
Shangai vice Conclusion | 203 |
Glossary | 223 |
其他版本 - 查看全部
常見字詞
addiction aphrodisiac art of sex bamboo become Beijing Bencao British called Canton chapter Chen Chenghua China Chinese culture common consumer coolies court cultures of consumption Daoguang domestic cultivation drug dynasty elite emperor enjoyed opium eunuchs foreign fragrance Fujian Guangdong Guangxi helped Hong Huang Hunan imperial Jardine Matheson Jiang Jiangnan Jiangsu Jiaqing knew lamp late nineteenth late Qing leisure class liang lived lower classes luxury Manchu medicine merchants Ming Nanjing native naturalisation nineteenth century opium became opium consumption opium lamp opium paste opium pipe opium smoking opium trade political redefinition poppy popular prohibition prostitutes provinces Qianlong Qing reign scholar-officials scholars and officials second Opium War sex recreation Shanghai Shanxi Shen Sichuan silver smoked opium smuggling snuff bottles social society south-east Asia story of opium studied Tang dynasty tobacco smoking urban Wang Tao Wanli women Xiang yanghuo Yunnan Zhang Zhejiang Zheng