For nearly a century, widespread Chinese addiction to opium destroyed millions of lives and ravaged a great nation. China’s history of being blighted by drugs can provide the U.S. with insights ...

It was here, in the 19th century, that British ships offloaded their opium onto fast-moving Chinese smuggling boats known as “centipedes”. The town, which in the past two decades has grown ...

was the only gateway through which foreign traders could do business for a period in late imperial China. Known then as Canton, it was also the site of the opium wars in the 19th century.

Chinese President Xi Jinping leads a ... has turned entire blocks of America’s major cities into the 21st-century equivalent of open-air opium dens — or war zones. In San Francisco, successful ...

However, their defeat in the wars led to the "unequal treaties" that compelled China to legalise opium and relinquish control ...

it tells the world what China suffered from Opium War a century ago is hurting US now. Understand the quirky parts of Aussie life. Get the latest with our exclusive in-language podcasts on your ...

For nearly a century, widespread Chinese addiction to opium destroyed millions of lives and ravaged a great nation. China’s history of being blighted by drugs can provide the U.S. with insights ...