Frank Dikötter is chair professor of humanities at the University of Hong Kong and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. His books include Mao's Great Famine, which won the 2011 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction, The Tragedy of Liberation: A History of the Chinese Revolution, and Narcotic Culture: A History of Drugs in China.
The Myth of the 'Opium War'
The vast majority of opium users in China were not the desperate addicts portrayed by proponents of prohibition.
