A painting from circa 1843 by British ... co-operation in tackling crises of addiction since the Opium Wars. The relationship between China and the West has changed significantly since the days ...

The British forces inflicted a series of military defeats on the Chinese until 1842, when the war was ended with the Treaty ...

The relatively unknown story of wartime Japan’s ties with the opium trade in China is now in the public domain, courtesy of a manga series that has already sold more than 1.8 million copies in ...

After the mid-18th century, when the British East India Co. was importing tea from China, few could have guessed that the industry would be revolutionized by a different plant: the opium poppy.

Imports of tea, porcelain and silk from China had created a large trade imbalance. One product that the British could access in large quantities was opium grown in territories under their colonial ...