Chinese Opium Smoker -Twelve Illustrations Showing the Ruin which our Opium Trade with China is bringing upon that Country Happy Wife (illustration 4).
This illustrated account of the evils of opium smoking, and of British complicity in the trade, was probably written by Benjamin Broomhall (1829-1911), executive director of the China Inland Mission. The legalisation of the opium trade in China in 1860 led to an apparent increase in consumption, and...
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Chinese Opium Smoker -Twelve Illustrations Showing the Ruin which our Opium Trade with China is bringing upon that Country [electronic resource] Happy Wife (illustration 4). |
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| Other authors: | 程連蘇, 1861-1918, (soo, chung ling, 1861-1918.) |
| Format: | Physical Object |
| Language: | English |
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1877.
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SOAS Digital Library.
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| 490 | |a Objects of instruction : treasures of SOAS. | ||
| 500 | |a Chung Ling Soo was the stage name of the American magician William Ellsworth Robinson (April 2, 1861– March 24, 1918) who is mostly remembered today for his death after a bullet catch trick went wrong. | ||
| 500 | |a VIAF (name authority) : Soo, Chung Ling, 1861-1918 : 3576066 | ||
| 500 | |a Source: A. Contadini (ed.), Objects of instruction : treasures of the School of Oriental and African Studies. London : SOAS, University of London, 2007. Listed as item number: 113 | ||
| 500 | |a From: Soo, Chung Ling. Chinese Opium Smoker -Twelve Illustrations Showing the Ruin which our Opium Trade with China is bringing upon that Country | ||
| 500 | |a Number 6 of CMWL C.1/59 | ||
| 520 | 3 | |a This illustrated account of the evils of opium smoking, and of British complicity in the trade, was probably written by Benjamin Broomhall (1829-1911), executive director of the China Inland Mission. The legalisation of the opium trade in China in 1860 led to an apparent increase in consumption, and to a renewed campaign against the drug by some government officials, and by Protestant missionary groups in China and overseas. -- Although the work claims to have been originally produced by Chinese anti-opium campaigners, it bears a striking similarity to George Cruikshank’s caricatures for the temperance movement, The Bottle (1847) and The Drunkard’s Children (1848). (Text by Tom Tomlinson, from the exhibition catalogue: Objects of instruction : treasures of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Anna Contadini, Editor. London : SOAS, University of London, 2007.) | |
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| 650 | 0 | |a Wives. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Abused wives. | |
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| 650 | |a 亞洲 -- 中國. | ||
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