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

The British forces inflicted a series of military defeats on the Chinese until 1842, when the war was ended with the Treaty ...

Five years ago the province was Afghanistan's second-biggest opium producer ... The ensuing decade-long war between the Soviets and the U.S.-backed mujahideen claimed farm-to-market roads ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The Opium Wars made it clear China had fallen gravely behind the West — not just militarily, but economically and politically. Every Chinese government ...

A vase initially dismissed as a "very clever reproduction" by a BBC antiques expert was later sold for a staggering £53 ...

Experts at the time said the 1740 Qing dynasty vase had been looted by British and French soldiers from the Summer Palace in Peking during the Second Opium War occupied by Emperor Xianfeng.

The 40-centimetre porcelain vase, dating back to the Qing era, was first featured on the BBC’s Going for a Song in the 1970s, ...

Volume two covers the subsequent period through Japan’s World War II defeat of 1945. The second volume also notes that the Manchukuo government forced opium addicts and other drug users to work ...