Less than two decades after the First Opium War, Britain launched another brutal campaign against Qing China this time with ...

Around 2 a.m. on Monday, December 6, 1875, a "posse of police" led by Captain William Douglass descended on 609 Dupont Street in San Francisco. The cops arrested Fannie Whitmore, Cora Martinez, James ...

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, ...

During the 19th century, opium was British India's most valued export and China its most lucrative market. So much so that in 1858 Britain went to war not to prevent drug trafficking, but to promote ...

HONG KONG — In 1840, Britain went to war with China over questions of trade, diplomacy, national dignity and, most importantly, drug trafficking. While British officials tried to play down the illicit ...

United States President Donald Trump recently threatened to impose an additional 10 per cent tariff on goods coming from ...

MILTON − The opium that flooded 19th-century China destroyed lives and unraveled society under the Qing dynasty. At the same time, it built the fortunes and secured the legacies of prominent New ...

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. Over ...

It’s hard to over-emphasize the impact of the Opium Wars on modern China. Domestically, it’s led to the ultimate collapse of the centuries-old Qing Dynasty, and with it more than two millennia of ...

An evil smoke rose from Peiping’s Forbidden City. By order of the National Government, a public bonfire was consuming 800,000 ounces of confiscated opium. China’s great drive against the drug traffic ...

Testifying before the California Senate's Special Committee on Chinese Immigration the year after Douglass' raid, another San Francisco police officer, George W. Duffield, averred that "ninety-nine ...