Subject: Zhang Changjia 張昌甲, b. 1827. Yanhua 煙話

fall of the god of money : opium smoking in nineteenth-century China. [Yanhua 煙話. English]
AuthorMcMahon, KeithZhang Changjia 張昌甲, b. 1827
PlaceLanham, MD
PublisherRowman & Littlefield
CollectionRicci Institute Library [ASCC]
LanguageEnglish
TypeBook
ShelfDir. Office Gallery North
Call NumberHV5816.M34 2002
Descriptionxi, 249 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
NoteThe fall of the god of money : opium smoking in nineteenth-century China / Keith McMahon.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-233) and index.

Introduction to "Western Smoke" -- A Short History of Opium Smoking in China -- Westerners' Intercourse with China -- Westerners on Opium and the Chinese -- Zhang Changjia's Yanhua, "Opium Talk" (1878) -- Eaten by Wild Dogs: Opium in Late Qing Fiction -- "Why the Chinese Smoked Opium" -- Appendix: Yanhua, "Opium Talk," by Zhang Changjia of Jinshan County, Jiangsu Province.

ISBN0742518035 ; 9780742518032
LCCN2002001882