Chinese President Xi Jinping leads a nation ... s major cities into the 21st-century equivalent of open-air opium dens — or war zones. In San Francisco, successful dealers now make more than ...

American merchants soon followed suit. The Chinese emperor objected, but to no avail. Thus, in the 1840s, an Anglican missionary describing an "opium den" in Amoy (the city now known as Xiamen), noted ...

HAIKOU -- Police in the southernmost Chinese province of Hainan on Tuesday publicly destroyed about 1,590 kilograms of drugs, ...

San Francisco's ban on opium dens, which cities like Stockton imitated, was just one facet of a broad, longrunning legal campaign aimed at subjugating or driving away Chinese immigrants.

Not shutting down Chinatown’s gambling halls and opium dens nor exiling its unmarried white women. Not house-to-house searches for weapons nor arrests. Not throwing Chinese offenders into prison ...

Poon’s laundry opium den filled with the poor and elite, city dwellers and pioneers. At the time, many news reports blamed the opium epidemic on China, a country they claimed was bent on revenge ...

And with both Chinese and British governments willing ... By the early 1980s, brothels, casinos, cocaine parlours and opium dens started to operate in the open public, while food courts serving ...

They brought the practice back to Chinese port cities, where opium dens proliferated, leading the Emperor to ban the drug in 1729, the first of many failed attempts to stomp out its use in the ...

gambling parlors and opium dens. It was the primary source of supplies and entertainment for the Chinese miners who lived in nearby camps. The 1870 census counted nearly 2,000 Chinese residents in ...

A LAW is malum prohibitum if it is wrong because the act is prohibited. Motive in crimes mala prohibita is immaterial. The defense of good faith is also unavailing. It is an offense that may not be ...