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328 pages • missing pub info (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780231148221
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 01 May 2009
Description
In his preface, the anonymous author of Courtesans and Opium describes his book as an act of penance for thirty years spent patronizing the brothels of Yangzhou. Written in the 1840s, his story is filled with vice and dark consequence, portraying ...
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328 pages • missing pub info (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780231148221
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 01 May 2009
Description
In his preface, the anonymous author of Courtesans and Opium describes his book as an act of penance for thirty years spent patronizing the brothels of Yangzhou. Written in the 1840s, his story is filled with vice and dark consequence, portraying ...