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 ...

Recent research has uncovered the dark side of Manchukuo and the huge influence played by opium and poppy farming in Manchuria. The Asahi Shimbun Digital website has collaborated with Kodansha Ltd.’ ...

In the early 19th century, British merchants wanted to sell Indian-grown opium in China, while Chinese officials attempted to ...

How should we situate China within the global context prior to the First Opium War? Compared with the Dutch and the British, in what ways did the Chinese interact with the world that had been created ...

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 ...

It begins with a brief history of the illicit drug trade in China ... changes in its economic market structure, opium and heroin use re-emerged in China as serious health concerns.

This state-run trade was achieved largely through two wars, which forced China to open its doors to British Indian opium. Hulton Archive Scenes from an opium factory in northern India Historian ...

Opium was grown in British India, and smuggled into China. The Chinese resisted the opium trade. This led to war, after the Chinese destroyed all the British opium in China. The Chinese army and ...

In the 1830s, Britain illegally exported opium to China in large quantities ... to ban opium smoking and the opium trade in Guangdong.

The Sassoons facilitated trade between Britain and China, importing opium and textiles while exporting prized Chinese goods like silk, tea, and silver. Their success in this trade prompted other ...

while warning of strong prospects for future expansion of the deadly trade. The Myanmar Opium Survey 2024 issued by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime says that after three consecutive ...