Sam Kelly explains how Queen Victoria became a huge fan of drugs—and how she brought China to its knees because of it.

We’re losing our children to digital brain rot, and they’re losing more than their attention spans.

Less than two decades after the First Opium War, Britain launched another brutal campaign against Qing China this time with ...

Shanghai — a heady mix of jazz clubs, opium dens, warlords, and Western decadence. Glamour and grit collided under flickering neon in what was then called the Paris of the East. Amid this chaos, the ...

Opium den at Daguanyuan “Yanguan” (煙館; opium divan) in the middle of the city (Colorized) Chinese smoking opium Interior of opium den Morphine injections Officially recognized opium ...

1880s opium trail infected city-folk and pioneers alike, across states and the Dakota Territory From Deadwood, South Dakota, to Bottineau, North Dakota, and east to Duluth and St. Paul, opium ...

Tagore wrote an article on what he called ‘The Death Traffic in China’. Ghosh doesn’t discuss many Chinese writers, though he does mention Zhang Changjia’s Opium Talk (1878), which portrayed the drug ...

Amitav Ghosh’s book Smoke and Ashes: Opium’s Hidden Histories, shortlisted for the British Academy Prize 2024 weaves together the horticultural, social, and political economy of the colonial ...

When modern China’s Wolf Warriors talk about avenging past humiliations and recovering the nation’s lost face, the Opium Wars are the fuel that fires their aggressive neo-nationalism: exhibit ...

'I thought this was a religious site': Ex-Pussycat Doll Nicole Scherzinger amused by Haw Par Villa sculpture of man smoking opium ...