Traces the lives of the great-grandsons of Charlie, the Red Barbarian--one an opium-dealing criminal, the other an anti-drug agent
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Intricately plotted and historically detailed, this novel set in China between 1907 and 1927 completes the trilogy begun in Red Barbarian and White Poppy, about that country's Opium Wars. When Wei Ta-yu, nicknamed Didi, arrives in Shanghai, he hopes to carry out the "life-duty" bequeathed to him by his grandfather, Wei Jin-see: abolition of the flourishing opium trade. Didi soon becomes a zealous official of the Opium...
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Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good to Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good to Fine. First Edition. Dodd Mead, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1987. Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. (1-10 number line) Large book, dark blue spine, light gray boards, very bright gilt lettering on spine, 228 pages. DJ glossy with color-illustration of men marching through bluish mountains on front and spine. Seller Inventory # 8000321
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. (1st) Large book, dark blue spine, light gray boards, very bright gilt lettering on spine, 228 pages. DJ glossy with color-illustration of men marching through bluish mountains on front and spine, white back with praise for Gaan's books from the New Yorker, Publisher's Weekly, Times Literary Supplement. DJ has light wear at top front tip, light wear to bottom front bookfold edge, very tiny surface wear spot at spine bottom right edge, tiny light crease at top back edge next to spine, very tiny tear at bottom back edge next to tip. Near Fine DJ/Very Fine book. Seller Inventory # 35403
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