Sam Kelly explains how Queen Victoria became a huge fan of drugs—and how she brought China to its knees because of it.

The Opium Wars weren’t just about drugs they were about power, profit, and empire. This video series breaks down how Britain’s addiction to Chinese tea led to one of history’s most lopsided conflicts, ...

Sarah Laursen, the associate curator of Chinese Art at the Harvard Art Museum, is hosting a workshop at the exhibition 'Objects of Addiction: Opium, Empire, and the Chinese Art Trade', which is being ...

Revenge is a common theme at the center of many kung fu movies and has been for decades, dating back to the genre's peak in the 1970s and 1980s.

The Opium Wars that occurred between 1839 and 1842 and 1856 and 1860 saw China battling rampant opium addiction, trying to fend off the colonial British and French naval forces, who fought to compel ...

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio indicated on Wednesday that China might be intentionally inundating the United States with the synthetic opioid fentanyl, resembling a reverse scenario of the ...

One product that the British could access in large quantities was opium grown in territories under their colonial control. The British response to address the trade imbalance was to flood the Chinese ...