books.google.com.au - This is the first book to consider the social and cultural implications of opium consumption. Collectively, the Chinese people redefined a foreign way of recreation and developed a complex culture of consumption around its use. The book traces this transformation over a period of five hundred years,...http://books.google.com.au/books/about/The_Social_Life_of_Opium_in_China.html?id=4EdISF8XgpoC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe Social Life of Opium in China
