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Poppies and Politics in China
Xiaoxiong Li
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Description for Poppies and Politics in China
Hardback. Num Pages: 308 pages. BIC Classification: GBC; JF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 167 x 22. Weight in Grams: 581.
From the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Sichuan Province was the largest opium-producing region in the largest opium-producing country, China. This book uses a chronological approach to describe and explain the rise and fall of opium in Sichuan. Through discussing the growth of opium production, the government policies toward opium and its usage, the impacts of opium on Sichuan politics and peopleOs lives, it tries to show how SichuanOs economic, social, and psychological milieu influenced and shaped opium production and consumption, and seeks to illuminate how the changing political climate led to the opium prohibition campaign, as well as ... Read more
From the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Sichuan Province was the largest opium-producing region in the largest opium-producing country, China. This book uses a chronological approach to describe and explain the rise and fall of opium in Sichuan. Through discussing the growth of opium production, the government policies toward opium and its usage, the impacts of opium on Sichuan politics and peopleOs lives, it tries to show how SichuanOs economic, social, and psychological milieu influenced and shaped opium production and consumption, and seeks to illuminate how the changing political climate led to the opium prohibition campaign, as well as ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Delaware Press United States
Number of pages
308
Condition
New
Number of Pages
308
Place of Publication
Delaware, United States
ISBN
9781611491142
SKU
V9781611491142
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-15
About Xiaoxiong Li
Xiaoxiong Li is a professor in the Social Science Department at Plymouth State University.
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