The Fall of the God of Money: Opium Smoking in Nineteenth-Century China - Rilegato

McMahon, Keith

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ISBN 10: 0742518027 ISBN 13: 9780742518025

Casa editrice: Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, 2002

Riassunto

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. 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. 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.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Keith McMahon is professor and chair of the East Asian Languages and Cultures Department at the University of Kansas.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0742518027
• ISBN 13: 9780742518025
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 249