Join me on a journey through history as we explore the shadowy legacy of the Opium Wars in the heart of Hong Kong. From ...

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 ...

The Impact of the Opium Trade on Global History Listen Download open in itunes Guest: Amitav Ghosh is the author of several bestselling books including, Ibis Trilogy; his latest is Smoke and Ashes: ...

“Like prostitution systems, state-regulated or otherwise, the opium problem is also rooted in the weaknesses of humans,” said Masanao Kurahashi, professor emeritus of Oriental history at Aichi ...

Kishlansky, ed., Sources of World History, Volume II, (New York: HarperCollins CollegePublishers, 1995), pp. 266-69 Kishlansky Introduction: Lin Zexu (1785-1850) was the Chinese Commissioner in Canton ...

Scraping opium resin off a seedpod in Myanmar's remote poppy fields, displaced farmer Aung Hla describes the narcotic crop as ...

When I was young, I never liked history in school. It was always a dry topic, capped off by having to remember a string of names and dates of things that I wasn’t interested in anyway.

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 ...

It is ostensibly a seal but on closer inspection the base unscrews to reveal a hollow inside - apparently it is for containing opium. I do not know for certain when it was made but imagine that it ...