It was opium money from trade with China that primarily funded the expansion of so many Western corporations and institutions. In his latest book, "Smoke and Ashes: Opium's Hidden Histories ...

All those people in China who sell opium or smoke opium should receive the death penalty. We trace the crime of those barbarians who through the years have been selling opium, then the deep harm they ...

or of Britain’s role in China, the land of his moral obsessions. In “Smoke and Ashes”—an indignant and occasionally eccentric account of “opium’s hidden histories”—Mr. Ghosh ...

Carol Benedict, Golden-Silk Smoke: A History of Tobacco in China, 1550-2010 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011). Zheng Yangwen, The Social Life of Opium in China (Cambridge: Cambridge ...

China has implemented strict regulations regarding video gaming by minors below 18, which will be limited to three hours a week to combat what authorities have described as the “spiritual opium”.

In the 1830s, Britain illegally exported opium to China in large quantities ... Governor-General of Hubei and Hunan, to ban opium smoking and the opium trade in Guangdong.

The Fresh Toast - China is known as a hard drinking culture, which could be part of the TIkTok's double standard on marijuana and alcohol.

Carol Benedict, Golden-Silk Smoke: A History of Tobacco in China, 1550-2010 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011). Zheng Yangwen, The Social Life of Opium in China (Cambridge: Cambridge ...