Taking account of this global context, Man-houng Lin has claimed that “the British could not find enough silver to pay for tea and silk and ended up using opium as the medium of exchange for ...

Although opium was used in China for centuries, it was not until the opening of the tea trade to Dutch and British merchants that China was able to import large quantities of the drug. By the early ...

Sarah Rose, For All the Tea in China: Espionage, Empire ... Zheng Yangwen, The Social Life of Opium in China (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005). Exam (50%, duration: 2 hours) in the summer ...

The Taliban claims opium poppy cultivation was stopped and the flow of illegal drugs halted when it was last in power in Afghanistan. But although there was a sharp drop in 2001 - when it was last ...

told The Daily Mail that opium gives the birds instant energy - similar to the effect of tea or coffee for a human. He said that once the birds had experienced this feeling, they would quickly ...

PRESENTER:'They then bought up Indian opium and sold it to China, 'buying tea in return. PRESENTER:'And so they created a trading triangle. 'The profits were high, but so was the risk. PRESENTER ...

Sarah Rose, For All the Tea in China: Espionage, Empire ... Zheng Yangwen, The Social Life of Opium in China (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005). Essay (35%, 3000 words) in the WT. Essay (35 ...