with the opium-smokers; a walk through the chinese quarter. where the celestials dream away the unhappy hours in an underground den--a chinese drug store and some other curiosities.

There is thus the suggestion from the data of a significant increase in opium smoking by the Chinese between 1870 and 1880, although most of the increase probably occurred between 1875 and 1880, that ...

Opium smoking arrived in North America with the large influx of Chinese workers in the 1840s and 1850s. Many of them set up homes and businesses in the Chinatown districts of San Francisco and New ...

The Chinese, uniquely, preferred to smoke their opium and had done so even before the British began their pernicious trade. Tobacco had arrived in China in the 1600s and a smoking culture took hold.

Its insincerity was made manifest by the Chinese Government’s subsequent refusal to send a delegate to the International Conference on Opium Smoking, convened by the League of Nations and held ...

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 ...

It was in Javanese ports that Chinese sailors learned the habit of smoking tobacco dipped in Dutch-made liquid opium. They brought the practice back to Chinese port cities, where opium dens ...

The Opium Exclusion Act applied only to the opium processed for smoking that was favored by Chinese immigrants —not the medicinal opium that white Americans commonly kept in their household ...

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.