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Book review: Narcotic Culture: A history of Drugs in China

Drug culture and the Irish Famine. The connection? Well, while our ancestors were starving and their food was being shipped off to feed the British,

Book review: Narcotic Culture: A history of Drugs in China

Sat, 03 Sep, 2016 - 01:00

Review: Carina McNally

Frank Dikötter, Zhou Xun and Lars Laamann

University of Chicago Press, €25

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