Opium was prevalent in China from the Qing Dynasty ... Background image: A 1940 photo of an opium sales outlet (Colorized) Opium den in the middle of the city Retailers who obtained approval ...

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 ...

and Chinatowns became known around the world for slum housing and opium and gambling dens. In 1945 and 1946, the British government and the shipping companies that hired these Chinese men colluded ...

The first place the Bohemian entered turned out to be an opium factory ... to be “more or less dens of gambling, inequity, shame and vice.” And not just vice for the Chinese community ...

Lunar New Year celebration. It’s the Year of the Fire Rooster! Enjoy a celebration of Lunar New Year on Sunday, Jan. 29, from noon-3 p.m. at the Holter Museum of Art, 12 E. Lawr ...

Visitors will experience the smells and sounds of a journey from England, through the docks of China, to an opium den. Simone LaCorbinière, joint head at Culture Change says the experience will ...

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 prohibitionists worried that opium dens were patronized by "young men and women of respectable parentage" as well as "the vicious and the depraved." Anti-Chinese Xenophobia Fueled ...

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.

They brought the practice back to Chinese port cities, where opium dens proliferated, leading the Emperor to ban the drug in 1729, the first of many failed attempts to stomp out its use in the ...