importing opium and textiles while exporting prized Chinese goods like silk, tea, and silver. Their success in this trade prompted other Bombay business houses to attempt similar expansions into ...

The Chinese filled the need for domestic services in white homes and developed laundry businesses ... (in 1880 the ratio of men to women was 20 to 1) opium dens, gambling halls was home to ...

Millions of Chinese were addicted to opium in those days ... Part two,” is issued by the Kyuko Shoin publishing house. Its author, historian Goichi Yamada, died in an accident after he ...

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 ...

He was referring to the two 19th-century Opium Wars China lost ... comes a week after the White House released an America ...

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”.

PROF. ZHENG YANGWEN:That the Chinese were buying a little bit of opium every time, and that number was increasing. PRESENTER:'The key to the opium trade was British control of India, 'where the ...

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 ...