The opioid that kills tens of thousands of Americans every year has become a source of political leverage that Beijing won’t ...

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.

Further hostilities broke out in the Second Opium War of 1856-58 when combined British and French forces again inflicted military defeats on China and demanded further concessions on trade.. Opium and ...

Today, the First Opium War is taught in Chinese schools as being the beginning of the “Century of Humiliation” — the end of that “century” coming in 1949 with the reunification of China ...

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, ...

The history with opium also has led China to adopt a particularly harsh anti-narcotics policy with the death penalty applicable even to mid-level traffickers. Drug-trafficking and organized crime ...

The scarcity of early connections between dotchins and opium reflects the fact that opium was seldom used or abused in China. That situation changed in the late 18th century when, seeking a commodity ...

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.