For nearly a century, widespread Chinese addiction to opium destroyed millions of lives and ravaged a great nation. China’s ...

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 ...

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

By the early nineteenth century opium was the principal product that the English East India Company traded in China and opium addiction was becoming a widespread social problem. When the emperor's own ...

Chinese authorities have become increasingly concerned about the impact of gaming, particularly worsening eyesight, passivity and online addiction, and thus the need to end “spiritual opium”.

Chinese media has called the gaming addiction as the “opium of the mind.” The developers of Fortnite in China have shut down the servers of the game in the country. Fortress Night, as the game ...

Young people in China have curbed their addiction to video games ... officials - who once attacked video games as "spiritual opium" - may soften the country's severe gaming restrictions.

Did China foster or resist the early wave of globalisation? How should we situate China within the global context prior to the First Opium War? Compared with the Dutch and the British, in what ways ...

PRESENTER:'And soon the ravages of the drug 'became apparent in the streets of China, with millions of addicts. PROF. ZHENG YANGWEN:'By the 1820s, opium addiction became visible socially.' ...