CHINA TO STAMP OUT THE USE OF OPIUM; Officials Must Set the Example and Cure Themselves. OPIUM DENS TO BE CLOSED Persons Addicted to the Drug to be Registered -- No One Will Be Allowed to Begin ...

Four well-to-do white women lie around a Chinese man, all clearly intoxicated, in New York in 1926 Credit: News Dog Media. These harrowing images give an insight into what these opium dens looked ...

New York City is certainly not lacking in fascinating history, and the story of the tong men of the Lower East Side is no exception. “Tong Wars: The Untold Story of Vice, Money, and Murder in… ...

In 1875, having found that many white men and women patronized the local "opium dens," the San Francisco Board of Supervisors attempted to check the "growing evil." To that end, they imposed hefty ...

By the Anglo-Chinese Opium Convention of 1907, ... Does he not know that as soon as the French Concession authorities made a cleanup of the opium dens and sales shops they were removed to ...

The opium dens may be gone, but the vision remains the same. For the railroad barons of the late 19th century and the tech lords of the 21st century, cheap workers are always in demand.

Hotel 50 Bowery Walks Back Controversial ‘Opium Den’ Lounge. Restaurateur Dale Talde calls it “a real fuck-up” by PR. by Stefanie Tuder. ... The land, owned by a Chinese family, ...

But Cincinnatians did not have to go to the theater to see an authentic opium den. For more than 50 years, from around 1880 into the 1930s, good, old-fashioned, Chinese-run opium dens offered dreams ...