Painting "Opium Smokers," Tonkin, circa 1923 The Japanese ... against the Qing Dynasty, which opened the Chinese market to Western goods. At the time, the most salable commodity produced by ...

Americans consume more illicit drugs per capita than anyone else in the world; about 6% of the U.S. population uses them ...

My father was the vice-president of the Chinese Manufacturers Union. As a child, I often accompanied him to meetings in restaurants. In those days, it was common for rich people to smoke opium.

Derived from the poppy plant, the psychotropic narcotic has fascinated people for 5,000 years. For better and for worse.

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My father was the vice-president of the Chinese Manufacturers Union. As a child, I often accompanied him to meetings in restaurants. In those days, it was common for rich people to smoke opium.

Like Hudson Taylor, Gutzlaff adopted Chinese dress and customs ... Many of his "preachers" turned out to be opium smokers who took advantage of Gutzlaff's credulity and generosity. Among his converts, ...

In Joël Penkman’s article “Small plants, big business” about the rise of plant poaching (Magazine, Life & Arts, January 25) my eye was caught by the name Robert Fortune, who Penkman tells us “brought ...

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