Faithin Omaha eBook Collection

In his preface, the anonymous author of Courtesans and Opium describes his book as an act of penance for thirty years spent patronizing the brothels of Yangzhou

A chilling tale of seduction and vice set in the illiciit world of nineteenth-century China.

Eighteenth-century consumers of the Qing and Ottoman empires had access to an increasingly diverse array of goods, from home furnishings to fashionable clothes

Chloe Starr's book offers a comprehensive literary reading of six nineteenth-century Chinese red-light novels and assesses how and why they alter our view of la

This trailblazing study examines the history of narcotics in Japan to explain the development of global criteria for political legitimacy in nations and empires