A key feature of China’s opium epidemic is that it was state-sponsored. In the early 19th century , British merchants wanted to sell Indian-grown opium in China, while Chinese officials ...

1840: Why the 19th-century opium wars between imperial China and Britain are still relevant in modern China By Satarupa Bhattacharjya in Guangzhou ( China Daily ) Updated: 2017-11-11 09:02:52.

In the 19th century China was defeated in two wars against Britain that were caused by British sales of contraband opium produced from Indian-grown poppies.

The Opium Wars that occurred between 1839 and 1842 and 1856 and 1860 saw China battling rampant opium addiction, ... This ...

China’s ‘Century of Humiliation’ with opium figures into the US fentanyl crisis by David Luckey and Scott Savitz, opinion contributors - 08/07/24 10:00 AM ET ...

A woman in China who was handed a six-month suspended jail term for growing more than 900 opium poppy plants on the roof of her house says she was given the seeds by her late father and liked to ...

Two bronze ritual wine containers decorated with dragons and other animals, late Anyang period, c. 1100-1050 B.C.E. (right) and late Anyang period or early Western Zhou period, c. 1050 B.C.E ...