Recovering Histories : Life and Labor after Heroin in Reform-Era China / Nicholas Bartlett.
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 indus...
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Toward a Phenomenology of Recovery
- 1. Mayhem on the Mountains: The Rush of Heroin's Arrival
- 2. Recovery as Adaptation: Catching Up to the Private Sector
- 3. Absence of a Future: Narrative, Obsolescence, and Community
- 4. Idling in Mao's Shadow: The Therapeutic Value of Socialist Labor
- 5. A Wedding and Its Afterlife: Relationships, Recovery
- 6. "From the Community": Civil Society Ambitions and the Limits of Phenomenology
- Epilogue
- Appendix: Events Impacting the Heroin Generation
- Notes
- References
- Index.