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 ...

It was opium money from trade with China that ... and that was effective. Even though, in China, the addiction problem continued until the 1950s, when, finally, the Communist Party did crack ...

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 ...

In 1839, in response to the addiction crisis, the Chinese emperor sent an official, Lin Tse-hsu, to Canton (modern-day Guangzhou), the home base for British opium merchants, to stem the flow of ...

The shipments caused clashes known as the Opium Wars and fueled addiction across China. The Cabots, Cushings, Welds, Delanos (Franklin Delano Roosevelt's ancestors) and Forbes were among Boston ...

Harvard Art Museums — unusually, explicitly, emphatically — are currently making sure of that with “Objects of Addiction: Opium, Empire, and the Chinese Art Trade,” an airing out of its ...

Pretty, but deadly: an illustration of poppies, from which opium comes, from an 18th-century Chinese woodblock printed book Photo: © President and Fellows of Harvard ...

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 ...