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.

Ancient China began as a group of isolated communities during the Stone Age and eventually grew into a formidable empire.

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 ...

Dr. W. H. G. Aspland, General Secretary of the International Anti-Opium Association in Peking, says: “In two districts in South Fu-Kien the military authorities are planning to raise $15,000,000 ...

In a little more than two decades, China fought two wars with foreign powers over an illicit opium trade that had ... of wall paintings broken from ancient temples in Dunhuang and Gansu provinces ...

JERUSALEM, Sept 20 (Reuters) - Opium traces have been discovered in Israel in vessels used in burial rituals by the ancient Canaanites, providing one of the world's earliest evidences of use of ...

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 ...