Norman Smith, "Intoxicating Manchuria: Alcohol, Opium, and Culture in China's Northeast"
English | 2012 | pages: 312 | ISBN: 077482428X | PDF | 19,6 mb
English | 2012 | pages: 312 | ISBN: 077482428X | PDF | 19,6 mb
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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