{"product_id":"recovering-histories-nicholas-bartlett-9780520344112","title":"Recovering Histories: Life and Labor After Heroin in Reform-Era China","description":"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 industry. More than two decades later, both the heroin epidemic and the mining boom are often discussed as recent history. Middle-aged long-term heroin users, however, complain that they feel stuck in an earlier moment of the country's rapid reforms, navigating a world that no longer resembles either the tightly knit Maoist work units of their childhood or the disorienting but opportunity-filled chaos of their early careers. Overcoming addiction in Gejiu has become inseparable from broader attempts to reimagine laboring lives in a rapidly shifting social world. Drawing on more than eighteen months of fieldwork, Nicholas Bartlett explores how individuals' varying experiences of recovery highlight shared challenges of inhabiting China's contested present.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Nicholas Bartlett\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0520344111\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780520344112\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of California Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/20\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 222\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.20w x 0.80d","brand":"Nicholas Bartlett","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44126635557119,"sku":"9780520344112","price":95.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a4fc08c9-41a4-4e93-baea-2ecbb0688838.jpg?v=1687449291","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/recovering-histories-nicholas-bartlett-9780520344112","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}