Some 2 million Chinese, mainly male traders, soldiers, officials and lower ranks of the imperial court, are estimated to have been addicted to opium in the 18th and 19th centuries ...

CHINESE immigrants and well-to-do Manhattan socialites lie together in drug-induced stupor – victims of the epidemic of opium addiction that spread across America in the late 19th century. Ra… ...

How Profits From Opium Shaped 19th-Century Boston ... Perkins drafts a letter to his nephew and business partner in the Chinese port city of Canton, now known as Guangzhou.

In his attempt to draw parallels between the drug problems of 19th Century China and 20th Century America, Prof. Lee Feigon misrepresents the events of the 19th Century. He asserts that China was t… ...

In 'Smoke and Ashes,' Amitav Ghosh draws comparisons between America's modern opioid crisis and the West's flooding of China with opium in the 18th century.

China’s surrender to Western powers after the first Opium War helps explain Beijing’s interest for a global trading order that works more on its terms, historians say.

Far less appreciated, and only opaquely understood, is the role another poppy-derived narcotic—opium—had in forming Baltimore’s 19th-century fortunes, when trade with China helped fuel the ...

In a city steeped in history, very few residents understand the powerful legacy of opium money. Skip to main content. WBUR. 90.0 WBUR ... How Profits From Opium Shaped 19th-Century Boston ...

Initially, the British had trouble selling even 500 crates of opium to China, but once it caught on, it was like a forest fire, and by the end of the 19th century, the Chinese were consuming ...

CHINESE immigrants and well-to-do Manhattan socialites lie together in drug-induced stupor – victims of the epidemic of opium addiction that spread across America in the late 19th century. Ra… ...

So, we really see a kind of playing out of what happened in China in the 19th century. The anti-opium movement in the early 20th century rattled the British Empire, and eventually China succeeded ...