The Chinese and Opium under the Republic

The Chinese and Opium under the RepublicExamines China's attempts to control the opium economy in the early twentieth century. In the nineteenth century, opium smoking was common throughout China and regarded as a vice no different from any other: pleasurable, potentially dangerous, but not a threat to destroy the nation and the race, and often profitable to the state and individuals. Once Western concepts of addiction came to China in the twentieth century, however, opium came to be seen

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