PRESENTER:'Here in this room in Nanking, 'they negotiated the first of what the Chinese ... The Chinese resisted the opium trade. This led to war, after the Chinese destroyed all the British ...

The ensuing decade-long war between the Soviets and the U.S ... the deadline was extended—giving some farmers enough time to first harvest the opium, then collect their check from ISAF.

In the mid-1840's, following defeat by Britain in the first Opium War, a series of natural catastrophes occurred across China resulting in famine, peasant uprisings and rebellions. Understandably ...

The Opium War is a 1943 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Masahiro Makino. "Ahen senso" in Japan refers to the First Opium War. The story of the film concerns this war.

The first Opium War lasted four years, and when it ended, the opium trade continued apace. In 1860, the British went so far as to pressure the Chinese to legalize the drug, with predictably ...

This is the first time in his life that he doesn't fear being hit by a bomb when venturing out. But for a people already battered by a long war, the opium ban has struck a crushing blow ...

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Did China foster or resist the early wave of globalisation? 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 ...

The latest UNODC survey confirms war-torn country’s status as world’s top opium producer but again fails to point blame at ...

“The war economy went ‘addicted ... Taiwan was the first Japanese colony to see the introduction of an opium monopoly system. The state of things in Taiwan is described in “The ...