Drugging a Nation: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
Drugging a Nation by Samuel Merwin: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 9 original MP3 tracks, 4:05:52 running time and a link to listen.
Drugging a Nation, credited to Samuel Merwin, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.
About the work
The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:
LibriVox recording of Drugging a Nation by Samuel Merwin. Read in English by Edmund Bloxam Drugging a Nation is a journalistic reveal of the extent to which the British Empire was culpable in the dissemination and subsequent near total addiction to opium of the Chinese people in the nineteenth century. So weak did it make China, that is was invaded multiple times, often by the British Empire itself looking to make its treaty ports stronger, but by other world powers too. In the end, this resulted in the complete collapse of the empire. The book describes in detail the extent to which opium had taken over the lives of the ordinary Chinese person and how it worked. (Summary by the author)
Recording facts
- Recording title: Drugging a Nation
- Author credits: Samuel Merwin
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 9
- Listed recording duration: 4:05:52
Catalogue topics
- Hong Kong
- British Empire
- china
- drugs
- addiction
- opium
- imperialism
- social unrest
Track guide
- 01 - Chapter 1: China's Predicament — 13:18
- 02 - Chapter 2: The Golden Opium Days — 40:49
- 03 - Chapter 3: A Glimpse into an Opium Province — 20:46
- 04 - Chapter 4: China's Sincerity — 37:18
- 05 - Chapter 5: Sowing the Wind in China-Shanghai — 33:46
- 06 - Chapter 6: Sowing the Wind in China-Tientsin and Hong Kong — 28:12
- 07 - Chapter 7: How British Chickens Came Home to Roost — 27:22
- 08 - Chapter 8: The Position of Great Britain — 31:09
- 09 - Section 9: Appendices — 13:12
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