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""For over a century both Chinese and Western historians have, for different reasons, acquired in the image of a nineteenth-century China enslaved by imperial bondage to a pandemic of opium addiction. Narcotic Culture offers an elegant, compelling and timely exposition of an entirely different story: a China where opium use was an indigenous addition to a long-established cultural complex, and where the true crisis of addiction was triggered not by opium itself but by the Western “anti-opium” medications which followed in the wake of its prohibition. As such it not only revises a century of flawed historiography, but poses a profound challenge to the founding myth of contemporary drug policy."" (Mike Jay, author of Emperors of Dreams: Drugs in the Nineteenth Century)
""A fascinating and provocative introduction to China's narcotic history. The authors challenge the view of opium as the ultimate symbol of national humiliation, forced upon a helpless China by imperialist powers in a mantra perpetuated by Chinese and Western historians alike. Arguably the first comprehensive attempt to write a social history of drugs in China."" – Borge Bakken, Australian National University
