![]() | Opium, State, and Society Surprisingly little has been written about the complicated relationship between opium and China and its people. Opium, State, and Society goes a long way toward illuminating this relationship in the Republican period, when all levels of Chinese society--from peasants to school teachers, merchants, warlords, and ministers of finance--were physically or economically dependent on the drug. Slack Edward R. : Edward R. Slack Jr. is professor of history at Eastern Washington University. |
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