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Recovering Histories - Life and Labor after Heroin in Reform-Era China (Paperback) Loot Price: R638
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Recovering Histories - Life and Labor after Heroin in Reform-Era China (Paperback): Nicholas Bartlett

Recovering Histories - Life and Labor after Heroin in Reform-Era China (Paperback)

Nicholas Bartlett

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Heroin first reached Gejiu, a Chinese city in southern Yunnan known as Tin Capital, in the 1980s. Widespread use of the drug, which for a short period became "easier to buy than vegetables," coincided with radical changes in the local economy caused by the marketization of the mining industry. More than two decades later, both the heroin epidemic and the mining boom are often discussed as recent history. Middle-aged long-term heroin users, however, complain that they feel stuck in an earlier moment of the country's rapid reforms, navigating a world that no longer resembles either the tightly knit Maoist work units of their childhood or the disorienting but opportunity-filled chaos of their early careers. Overcoming addiction in Gejiu has become inseparable from broader attempts to reimagine laboring lives in a rapidly shifting social world. Drawing on more than eighteen months of fieldwork, Nicholas Bartlett explores how individuals' varying experiences of recovery highlight shared challenges of inhabiting China's contested present.

General

Imprint: University of California Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: October 2020
First published: 2020
Authors: Nicholas Bartlett
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 222
ISBN-13: 978-0-520-34413-6
Categories: Books > Humanities > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > Social & cultural anthropology > General
Books > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General
LSN: 0-520-34413-8
Barcode: 9780520344136

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