All those people in China who sell opium or smoke opium should receive the death penalty. We trace the crime of those barbarians who through the years have been selling opium, then the deep harm they ...

It was opium money from trade with China that primarily funded the expansion of so many Western corporations and institutions. In his latest book, "Smoke and Ashes: Opium's Hidden Histories ...

Anti-opium pamphlet.; Illustration shows smokers inhaling the poison from a long tube, to which cling a toad and other; animals. The smoke contains centipedes etc. The characters under the tube run tu ...

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 ...

Carol Benedict, Golden-Silk Smoke: A History of Tobacco in China, 1550-2010 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011). Zheng Yangwen, The Social Life of Opium in China (Cambridge: Cambridge ...

or of Britain’s role in China, the land of his moral obsessions. In “Smoke and Ashes”—an indignant and occasionally eccentric account of “opium’s hidden histories”—Mr. Ghosh ...

PROF. ZHENG YANGWEN:That the Chinese were buying a little bit of opium every time, and that number was increasing. PRESENTER:'The key to the opium trade was British control of India, 'where the ...

Carol Benedict, Golden-Silk Smoke: A History of Tobacco in China, 1550-2010 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011). Zheng Yangwen, The Social Life of Opium in China (Cambridge: Cambridge ...