Around 2 a.m. on Monday, December 6, 1875, a "posse of police" led by Captain William Douglass descended on 609 Dupont Street in San Francisco. The cops arrested Fannie Whitmore, Cora Martinez, James ...

After the mid-18th century, when the British East India Co. was importing tea from China, few could have guessed that the industry would be revolutionized by a different plant: the opium poppy. Over ...

The United States is losing the New Opium War with China. Leaders in Washington, D.C. appear unwilling to acknowledge that a fight even exists. A crisis of addiction in China in the 19th century, ...

Preface -- The poppy problem comes to the West -- Into the West's caves of oblivion -- Threats to body and behavior -- Excluding the dual dilemma -- Smoking-opium's continued presence -- Notes -- ...

A Chinese man lures a white girl into his den and teaches her to smoke opium. Police raid the place in a nick of time and arrest him.

One slice of Berkshire’s rich immigrant history that’s never been closely examined is the rise and fall of the Chinese laundry business. According to statistics from the Massachusetts Launderers ...

I can recall as a history major in college the first time I came across, quite by accident, a reference to an enduring presence of Chinese Americans in Arkansas history. A bit of research established ...

Testifying before the California Senate's Special Committee on Chinese Immigration the year after Douglass' raid, another San Francisco police officer, George W. Duffield, averred that "ninety-nine ...