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Loyola University Chicago Lakeshore Campus - Fall 2012 | ||
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Narcotic Culture: A History of Drugs in China (1st Edition) by Zhou Xun, Lars Peter Laamann, Frank Dikötter, Frank Dikã Tter Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 2004 ISBN-10: 0-226-14905-6 / 0226149056 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-14905-9 / 9780226149059 To this day, the perception persists that China was a civilization defeated by imperialist Britain's most desirable trade commodity, opium a drug that turned the Chinese into cadaverous addicts in the iron grip of dependence. Britain, in an effort to reverse the damage caused by opium addiction, lau |