Intoxicating Manchuria: Alcohol, Opium, and Culture in China's Northeast (Contemporary Chinese Studies) - Hardcover

Smith, Norman

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 077482428X ISBN 13: 9780774824286

Publisher: UBC Press, 2012

Synopsis

In Intoxicating Manchuria, Norman Smith reveals how huge intoxicant industries were altered by warlord rule, Japanese occupation, and war. Powering the spread of alcohol and opium -- initially heralded as markers of class or modernity and whose use was well documented -- these industries flourished throughout the early twentieth century even as a vigorous anti-intoxicant movement raged.

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Book Description:

An illuminating and fascinating analysis of the connections between Japanese imperialism, narratives of addiction, and Chinese popular culture in the early twentieth century.

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Intoxicating Manchuria reveals how the powerful alcohol and opium industries in Northeast China were altered by warlord rule, Japanese occupation, political conflict, and a vigorous anti-intoxicant movement. Through the lens of the Chinese media's depictions of alcohol and opium, Norman Smith examines how intoxicants and addiction were understood in this society, the role the Japanese occupation of Manchuria played in the portrayal of intoxicants, and the efforts made to reduce opium and alcohol consumption. This is the first English-language book-length study to focus on alcohol use in modern China and the first dealing with intoxicant restrictions in the region.

About this edition

• Publisher: UBC Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 077482428X
• ISBN 13: 9780774824286
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 312