In 1839, Lin was the Qing dynasty official who confronted the British and their illegal opium trade that pushed the substance on Chinese users; he confiscated 20,000 chests of the drug and cast ...

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PRESENTER:'But this created a huge balance of payments problem for the British, 'as the Chinese bought almost ... ZHENG YANGWEN:Because opium is something you could sell and make a lot of money.

266-69 Kishlansky Introduction: Lin Zexu (1785-1850) was the Chinese Commissioner ... because the harm caused by opium is clearly understood. Since it is not permitted to do harm to your own country, ...

It features a young Japanese man who crosses by ship to the Asian mainland, where he turns to illicit opium ... drug dealers in the market of opium. Millions of Chinese were addicted to opium ...

One product that the British could access in large quantities was opium grown in territories under their colonial control. The British response to address the trade imbalance was to flood the Chinese ...