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Paperback Intoxicating Manchuria: Alcohol, Opium, and Culture in China's Northeast Book

ISBN: 0774824298

ISBN13: 9780774824293

Intoxicating Manchuria: Alcohol, Opium, and Culture in China's Northeast

(Part of the Contemporary Chinese Studies (UBC Press) Series)

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In China, both opium and alcohol were used for centuries in the pursuit of health and leisure while simultaneously linked to personal and social decline. The impact of these substances is undeniable, and the role they have played in Chinese social, cultural, and economic history is extremely complex. In Intoxicating Manchuria, Norman Smith reveals how warlord rule, Japanese occupation, and political conflict affected local intoxicant industries. These...

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