A painting of Lin Zexu, a Qing official who led an anti-opium drive in 1839. [Photo by Liang Fengxin/For China Daily] The imperial decree to allow foreign merchants to only trade through Canton ...

The Chinese opium trade waned in the early 20th century ... “Children at Play,” a life-size scroll painting from the 18th or 19th century, depicts a Chinese woman attending to small children ...

Pretty, but deadly: an illustration of poppies, from which opium comes, from an 18th-century Chinese woodblock printed ... can be seen in a 19th-century painting of the Port of Shanghai (by ...

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.

Detail from 'The Illustrated London News', painting of a poppy flower by Hans ... The British began exporting Indian opium to China around 1780, after establishing a trading foothold in that ...

Welcome to the front lines of the Third Opium War, where the number of those Killed in Action totaled 109,000 in 2022 — and is growing. The quest for profit and global domination fuel China’s ...

The United States is losing the New Opium War with China. Leaders in Washington, D.C. appear unwilling to acknowledge that a fight even exists. A crisis of addiction in China in the 19th century ...

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 ...

Imports of tea, porcelain and silk from China had created a large trade imbalance. One product that the British could access ...

Dr. W. H. G. Aspland, General Secretary of the International Anti-Opium Association in Peking, says: “In two districts in South Fu-Kien the military authorities are planning to raise $15,000,000 ...

Much anxiety is felt in commercial and official circles owing to the attitude of the Chinese authorities in the matter of opium duties. View Full Article in Timesmachine » Advertisement ...