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Narcotic Culture - A History Of Drugs In China
London, The University of Chicago Press, 2004. 1 volumn, hard-cover with dust-jacket, in-8, XI-319 pp., 20 illustrations, a very good copy.
Contents: Introduction - The Global Spread of Psychoactive Substances - Opium Before "The Opium War" (c. 1600-1840) - Opium for the People: Status, Space and Consumption (c. 1840-1940) - 'The Best Possible and Sure Shield': Opium, Diisease and Epidemics (c. 1840-1940) - War on Drugs: Prohibition and the Rise of Narcophobia (c. 1880-1940) - Curing the Addict: Prohibition and Detoxification (c. 1880-1940) - Pills and Powders: The Spread of Semi-Synthetic Opiates (c. 1900-1940) - Needle Lore: The Syringe in China (c. 1890-1950) - China's Other Drugs (c. 1900-1950) - Conclusion.
Crime, Punishment and the Prison in Modern China
Hong Kong, New York Columbia University Press, 2002. 1 volume, hard-cover with illustrated dust-jacket, in-8, xvi+441 pp., 42 illustrations, very good copy.
Contents: Acknowledgements - Conventions - Introduction - Part 1: The Emergence of a Mordern Penal System: The Movement for Prison Reform in the Late Qing (1895-1911) - Civil Prisons in Early Republican China (1911-27) - Part 2: Science, Crime and Punishment Under the Guomindang: The Science of Punishment (1927-49) - The Science of Crime (1927-49) - Part 3: Prison Reform Under the Guomindang: Prison Reform in the Nanjing Decade (1927-37) - The Prison System During the War (1937-49) - Conclusion - Appendixes - Bibilography - Index - Character List
