The Chinese opium trade waned in the early 20th century ... “Children at Play,” a life-size scroll painting from the 18th or 19th century, depicts a Chinese woman attending to small children ...

A painting of Lin Zexu, a Qing official who led an anti-opium drive in 1839. [Photo provided to China Daily] The imperial decree to allow foreign merchants to only trade through Canton Customs was ...

Pretty, but deadly: an illustration of poppies, from which opium comes, from an 18th-century Chinese woodblock printed ... can be seen in a 19th-century painting of the Port of Shanghai (by ...

The painting conveys an almost pastoral view of Chinese urban life ... be defeated and humiliated by the British in the First Opium War (1840–1841). In a way, this is a reminder to Chinese ...

As Dickens put it, opium use could even make the smoker ... s many troubles”, as Ms Lovell puts it. Some Chinese liberals wonder whether painting foreigners, be they Westerners or Japanese ...

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.

The United States is losing the New Opium War with China. Leaders in Washington, D.C. appear unwilling to acknowledge that a fight even exists. A crisis of addiction in China in the 19th century ...

Imports of tea, porcelain and silk from China had created a large trade imbalance. One product that the British could access ...

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 ...