In 1839, Lin was the Qing dynasty official who confronted the British and their illegal opium trade that pushed the substance on Chinese users; he confiscated 20,000 chests of the drug and cast ...

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 ...

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The Opium Wars of the mid-19th century were fought between the Western powers and the Qing dynasty, which ruled China from ...

Unfortunately, no confirmed authentic works of Wang have survived and the reliability of the some hundred ancient copies ...

Han Limei and her husband Gai Bin, a couple of folk artists in Jingyu county, Northeast China's Jilin province, have created a series of rural paintings representing the 24 solar terms in the ...

McKinsey & Co. partners have been questioning the consulting giant’s presence in China, worried that doing business there may not be worth the risks given the Asian superpower’s increasingly ...

Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi will visit the UK, Ireland, Germany, and the US before attending the G20 meeting in South Africa. In London, he will meet UK foreign secretary David Lammy as ...

While poppies grow wild on the hills, locals primarily cultivate them for opium production, though they are also used in medicine and cooking. Despite efforts by the Lao government to control opium ...

China’s president has been supplying his “dear friend” Vladimir Putin with advanced technologies and helping to prop up the Russian economy, and he is studying Russia’s ability to ...

In recent years, with the continuous upgrading of China's products and the acceleration ... Liuyang's creations paint vibrant narratives of cultural exchange, and the enduring legacy of ancient ...