Hongshan culture's jade ritual artifacts, large-scale sacrificial sites and complex social belief systems make it a ...

The Opium Wars of the mid-19th century were fought between the Western powers and the Qing dynasty, which ruled China from ...

According to Tong Tao, a professor at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences who helped find it, the message describes a ...

A millet-farming settlement on the Shandong coast in Neolithic China around 4,500 years ago organized its society by maternal ...

What did poetry mean to the ancient Chinese? Confucius (551-479 BC) offered an answer. "Poetry can inspire the mind, offer ...

Ancient China began as a group of isolated communities during the Stone Age and eventually grew into a formidable empire. Ancient Chinese people developed their own writing system and several ...

The Framji Dadabhoy Alpaiwalla Museum documents the history and legacy of the ancient Parsi community ... cotton - and notably, opium - with China. The exhibits include traditional Parsi sarees ...

and by an ancient grudge, nearly biblical in scope, against the West over the 19 th-century opium wars. You might think of Mexican kingpins as the top of the drug food chain, but everybody works for ...

Imports of tea, porcelain and silk from China had created a large trade imbalance. One product that the British could access in large quantities was opium grown in territories under their colonial ...

However, an illicit opium trade, primarily with China, was conducted privately and so the opium ... A cultural history from Ancient Egypt to Flanders Fields to Afghanistan. Oneworld Publications, ...

"Then in POWDER, the Templars expand their influence around the globe, while expanding their coffers at home, flooding China with opium," it continues. "And while the brotherhood is slow to act ...

For nearly a century, widespread Chinese addiction to opium destroyed millions of lives and ravaged a great nation. China’s history of being blighted by drugs can provide the U.S. with insights ...