While synthetic opiods are a relatively new class of drugs, opium has a long destructive history in trade wars and warfare, ...

A 10-year-old's homework dispute in Yongning County, China, led to his father's opium stash being exposed. In retaliation for ...

The British forces inflicted a series of military defeats on the Chinese until 1842, when the war was ended with the Treaty of Nanking . The treaty opened five Chinese ports to British traders, ...

After the mid-18th century, when the British East India Co. was importing tea from China, few could have guessed that the industry would be revolutionized by a different plant: the opium poppy.

The relatively unknown story of wartime Japan’s ties with the opium trade in China is now in the public domain, courtesy of a manga series that has already sold more than 1.8 million copies in ...

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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 ...

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 ...