Chinese President Xi Jinping leads a nation ... s major cities into the 21st-century equivalent of open-air opium dens — or war zones. In San Francisco, successful dealers now make more than ...

American merchants soon followed suit. The Chinese emperor objected, but to no avail. Thus, in the 1840s, an Anglican missionary describing an "opium den" in Amoy (the city now known as Xiamen), noted ...

San Francisco's ban on opium dens, which cities like Stockton imitated, was just one facet of a broad, longrunning legal campaign aimed at subjugating or driving away Chinese immigrants.

Lee You, a Chinaman, has kept for some time an opium "joint" on the top floor of the five-story tenement house No. 5 Mulberry street. Capt. McCullagh, of the Sixth Precinct, endeavored to secure ...

In opium dens, smokers would recline on these richly ... interest in Russel & Co., the largest American trading company in China at the time. As you walk through the museum, the wealth derived ...

Poon’s laundry opium den filled with the poor and elite, city dwellers and pioneers. At the time, many news reports blamed the opium epidemic on China, a country they claimed was bent on revenge ...

gambling parlors and opium dens. It was the primary source of supplies and entertainment for the Chinese miners who lived in nearby camps. The 1870 census counted nearly 2,000 Chinese residents in ...