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The Fall of the God of Money: Opium Smoking in Nineteenth-Cen
by McMahon, Keith | PB | Acceptable
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- ISBN
- 9780742518032
- Book Title
- Fall of the God of Money : Opium Smoking in Nineteenth-Century China
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
- Publication Year
- 2002
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 0.6 in
- Genre
- Psychology, History, Social Science
- Topic
- Ethnic Studies / General, Asia / China, Psychopathology / Addiction
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- 5.8 in
- Item Weight
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- Number of Pages
- 256 Pages
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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 confrontation between the Chinese opium user and the Euro-Westerner who saw in opium the image of an uncanny Asiatic menace. Opium was inextricably bound up with generalizations made about teeming Asiatic masses, nightmarish opium sots, effeminate Chinamen, and orientalized white women. In China, opium--called the Western Drug--was tied to the arrival of Christianity and Western greed. The rise of the opium demon meant the fall of the god of money, that is, Chinese money, and the irreversible trend in which Confucianism gave way to Christianity. McMahon makes the case for opium smoking as a way of life that, far from being merely wanton, was an entirely reasonable choice in times when smokers could be neither Christian nor Confucian. Opium smoking was a way of inhabiting an era in which traditional loyalties were in critical transition. The author convincingly demonstrates that the current laws against drugs of addiction have their origins in this early modern conflict of cultures and not in any supposed scientific evidence that opium is so definitively worse than alcohol. The book explores early Western observations of opium smoking, the formation of arguments for and against the legalization of opium, the portrayals of opium smoking in Chinese poetry and prose, and scenes of opium-smoking interactions among male and female smokers and smokers of all social levels in 19th-century China. By providing the first translation ever of a unique 1878 autobiography of a Chinese addict, McMahon is able to explore the opium smoker's own observations on China and opium smoking. No other studies have focused attention so richly on opium smokers, their language, the scenes of their smoking together, their gendered interactions, and their relations with family and society.
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Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0742518035
ISBN-13
9780742518032
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2169682
Product Key Features
Book Title
Fall of the God of Money : Opium Smoking in Nineteenth-Century China
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Ethnic Studies / General, Asia / China, Psychopathology / Addiction
Publication Year
2002
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Psychology, History, Social Science
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9 in
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Width
5.8 in
Item Weight
12.3 Oz
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Trade
Lc Classification Number
Hv5816.M34 2002
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Keith McMahon's monograph is a genuine contribution to the late Qing opium discourse, even today often mired in the unreflected condemnation of a complex and sophisticated smoking culture., This study contributes to the cultural history of late imperial China and the contemporaneous West. Recommended.
Table of Content
Chapter 1 Introduction to "Western Smoke" Chapter 2 A Short History of Opium Smoking in China Chapter 3 Westerners' Intercourse with China Chapter 4 Westerners on Opium and The Chinese Chapter 5 Zhang Changjia's Yanhua, Opium Talk (1878) Chapter 6 Eaten by Wild Dogs: Opium in Late Qing Fiction Chapter 7 "Why the Chinese Smoked Opium" Chapter 8 Appendix: Yanhua, "Opium Talk," by Zhang Changjia of Jinshan County, Jiangsu Province
Copyright Date
2002
Lccn
2002-001882
Dewey Decimal
394.1/4
Dewey Edition
21
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