Opium how an ancient flower shaped and poisoned our world John H. Halpern, MD, and David Blistein Smithsonian Libraries and Archives. ... her company ; A 5,000-year tradition of medicine and ...

In his speech at the opening of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China in October, President Xi Jinping said ancient China was a great nation. But things changed after the ...

In 'Smoke and Ashes,' Amitav Ghosh draws comparisons between America's modern opioid crisis and the West's flooding of China with opium in the 18th century.

From ancient Afghanistan comes fresh insight into the opium trade’s stakeholders there. In the heart of the Bactrian kingdom of the late first millennium bce to the early first millennium ce, a ...

Dr. W. H. G. Aspland, General Secretary of the International Anti-Opium Association in Peking, says: “In two districts in South Fu-Kien the military authorities are planning to raise $15,000,000 ...

A scene from 1842 during the first Opium War between China and Britain. Such battles more than 150 years ago were about control over trade, finance, and sovereignty — much like China’s ...

The Opium Trade in China Clip: Episode 5 | 3m 16s Video has Closed Captions | CC Michael Wood talks to Prof. Zheng Yangwen about the crippling social effects on China of the opium trade run by the ...