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became concerned about the spread of opium use in China. In 1838, he ... ==Reign as Emperor and the Opium Trade== The Daoguang Emperor ascended ...

of his book Confessions of an English Opium-Eater. First published in ... " During this time he began to take opium. He left, apparently about ...

The Treaty of Nanking (Nánjīng Tiáoyuē) is the agreement which marked the end of the First Opium War between the United Kingdom and China ...

is not all positive as one species is the opium poppy (Papaver somniferum ... * Papaver—— Iceland poppy, Oriental poppy, Opium poppy, corn poppy ...

to move to a new defense position, Opium Hill. Opium Hill or Bukit Chandu, in Malay, had been named after an opium ...

gout" and became severely addicted to the opium that he took (in the form of laudanum) to relieve the pain. As a result he experienced paranoid ...

neuralgic pain and became addicted to opium. His much-admired poem "Kubla ... Beginning in 1796, Coleridge started using opium as a pain reliever ...

poems, an anti-imperialistic account of the Opium War entitled, “Through ... the Study of Chinese Painting (1923), The Opium War Through Chinese Eyes ...

it left him stunned, despondent and prey to opium addiction. Opponents of that ... His opium addiction at the time, Cocteau said, was only coincidental ...

fortune in the fur trade, real estate, and opium. Astor was a very ambitious ... line/shows/heroin/etc/history.html Opium throughout History] ...

On May 18, 1839, be outlawed the use of opium. Thailand, and Rama. Proclamation against Opium, 18 May 1839. Bangkok: ...

the site had been used by the British as an opium warehouse during the nineteenth ... War II. Bukit Chandu (which means "Opium Hill” in Malay, known as ...

door to China's demise with the Second Opium War. He reasoned that eradicating ... Chinese interior, which after the Second Opium War in 1860 had been opened ...

who was known as a womanizer and an opium addict, would more easily ... influence in Manchuria, overcame his opium addiction, and declared his ...

[[Image:325px-First Opium War Smuggling.jpg|thumb|right|250px|1921 ... In late Qing Imperial China, opium imported by the British East India ...

images of Buddhist and Taoist deities to opium pipe (Martin 2007). ... * Martin, S. 2007. The Art of Opium Antiques. Chiang Mai, Thailand: ...

Baudelaire's own life mirrored his art. He became addicted to ... troubled times he began experimenting with opium, and in Brussels Baudelaire ...

In 1842 the British defeated Chinese forces in the First Opium War ... French military force during the Second Opium War, coupled with the flight ...

war against Great Britain in the First Opium War. The ruling Qing dynasty ... * Other new laws were promulgated including the prohibition of opium ...

====Opium trade==== In the eighteenth century, opium was highly sought after by the Chinese ...

of his mentor, Cai E, Zhu De developed a strong opium habit and fell into a life of decadence and warlordism. However, Zhu's love of reading and ...

observed the colonization of China and the Opium Wars there with grave concern ... [[Image:Second Opium War-guangzhou.jpg|thumb|right|250|Second Opuim War]] ...

French occupation of Beijing during the Second Opium War, Choe felt dread and foreboding that Korea would suffer the same fate. After several skirmishes ...

the nineteenth centuries, agitated by the opium trade and disturbed by revolts ... From the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries, agitated by the opium ...

by China at the hands of Westerners during the Opium Wars, the Korean court persecuted the French missionaries, massacring French Catholic missionaries ...

of foot-binding, and laws prohibiting opium, gambling, tobacco, alcohol ... Hong demanded that evil practices such as opium smoking, gambling and prostitution ...

leader in the legal production and distribution of opium. ... has been one of the important producers of opium in the world. Cotton and ...

Coleridge by now was almost totally dependent upon opium for pain ... further estranged over the latter's opium addiction. In 1813 Wordsworth ...

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results which are identical with those of opium, it puts all parts of humanity ... earth, it [naive Religion] sketches, in its opium intoxication, a picture of ...

her to inveigh against drugs, in particular opium and cannabis. Using the name ... understanding of the use and effects of opium, cocaine, and pharmaceuticals ...

it maintained until the outbreak of the Opium Wars in 1839 and the opening ... (signed in 1842) at the end of the First Opium War between Britain and China ...

on earth, as well as a huge illegal opium poppy cultivation and opium ... Expanding poppy cultivation and a growing opium trade generate roughly $3 ...

model of De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium-Eater. Some critics, like Pramathnath Bishi, consider Chattopadhyay as the best novelist ...

defeat Western powers, such as Britain, in the Opium Wars and were also seriously challenged by the Taiping Rebellion. By the late nineteenth ...

and defeats in wars, including the Opium Wars with Great Britain the ... foremost of which was addicting China with opium. When the Qing regime tried ...

smuggling and of being engaged in the opium trade. These soldiers captured ... At the end of the first part of the Second Opium War in June of the ...

Myth of the Revolution,"] in The Opium of the Intellectuals (1955 ... * Aron, Raymond. The Opium of the Intellectuals. London, U.K.: Routledge ...

in China, and was established in 1557. It was the opium trade through Guangzhou that initially triggered the Opium Wars, opening an era of foreign incursion ...

to describe the waking nightmares of an opium addict: "The sole true Something--This! In Limbo's Den/It frightens Ghosts, as here ...

His doctors tried everything to cure him, including applying opium to his chest, castor oil, Virginia snakeweed, and even actual snakes. But ...

Expanding poppy cultivation and a growing opium trade generate roughly ... expanding poppy cultivation and a growing opium trade generate roughly $4 ...

to trade for war supplies, cotton cloth, and opium, brought by British merchants from Singapore and Calcutta, Chinese from Manila, and Portuguese ...

human dignity to combat social ills, such as opium addiction and wanton pleasure-seeking. === Art as a Refuge from Suffering (jietuo shuo) === ...

:There is no antidote against the Opium of time, which temporally considereth all things; Our Fathers finde their graves in our short memories ...

Mandates Commission, the Permanent Central Opium Board, the Commission for ... ; Permanent Central Opium Board: The Board was established to supervise ...

director of the sanatorium, Dr. Dardel, prescribed opium for Artaud, precipitating a lifelong addiction to that and other drugs. ===Paris=== ...

by China with various Western powers after the Opium Wars, was also signed, confirming the opening of various ports and rivers in China to Japanese ...

British and Chinese during the period of the Opium Wars, a time of disputes and hostilities. According to legend, he received a gift of tea flavored ...

enabled it to profit from a flourishing trade in opium, copper, silk, sandals, date palms and coffee. Early in its history, the state became a ...

into Central Asia, and fought the First Opium War with China which ended ... ===Arrow controversy and the Second Opium War=== In October 1856 the ...

morphine, and atropine have been traced to foxglove, opium, and belladonna, respectively. Ethnomedical investigations in this century have led to the ...

ties with Japan and western nations. Two Opium Wars and the Sino-French ... from lack of pay, low prestige, use of opium, and poor leadership. Those ...

Tomás Borge described Ubico as "crazier than a half dozen opium smoking frogs." Borge (1992), 55. Ubico reportedly dressed his soldiers ...

cannabis, ethanol, ergine, psilocybe mushrooms, and opium. Many pure active compounds with psychoactive properties have been isolated from organisms and ...

foot-binding was still the practice in China; opium was being sold on street; and political institutions were corrupt and unable to fend off foreign ...

of Nanking was signed at the end of the first Opium War in 1842, they also acquired Hong Kong. In 1853, Commodore Matthew Perry of the United States ...

Customs Service in British Malaya and the Opium Trade (Radcliffe Press, 2005 ... Customs Service in British Malaya and the Opium Trade. Radcliffe Press, 2005 ...

In 1839, the First Opium War broke out, and China was defeated by Britain. In view of the weakness of the Qing government, Britain and other ...

mercury, and potassium salts. He also dissolved opium in alcohol and called it “laudanum"; it was used for centuries as an effective painkiller ...

result of a growing dependency on morphine and opium. Despite his growing weariness Spencer continued to write, and in 1858 he began work on a ...

In September 1860, during the closing stages of the Second Opium War ... still suffering the effects of the Second Opium War, and the Taiping Rebellion ...

describe the practice of smearing the breast with opium residue so that a nursing baby would die with no outward cause. From its earliest days ...

wound: He tired more easily and frequently took opium for pain. The murder of Rasputin has become legend, some of it apparently invented by the ...

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (original: The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere) is the longest major poem by the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge ...

* Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821) by Thomas de Quincey ([http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/2040 Full text] at [http://www.gutenberg ...

role changed radically. During the First Opium War in the early-nineteenth ... During the 1920s, Shanghai was also a center for opium smuggling, ...

to foreign trade and missionary activity, opium produced by British India ... The flow of British opium led to more decline. [[Image:Boxer1900.jpg ...

took in a concubine and later became addicted to opium. Although Chang's mother did return four years later following her husband's promise ...

suicide in 1774, after being addicted to opium. ===Terms of agreement=== These were the terms agreed between the new Nawab and the Company: ...

to foreign trade in 1861, after the Second Opium War, when the British extracted ... During the Second Opium War (known in the West as the Arrow War, 1856 ...

Major producer countries include Afghanistan (opium), Bolivia (primarily cocaine), and Colombia (primarily cocaine). Sometimes the goods are ...

medicine doctor, he successfully traded in oils, opium, liquor, and grain, and operated a money changing business. His business success allowed him to ...

In 1839, the refusal by Qing Dynasty authorities to import opium resulted in the First Opium War between China and Britain.Trea Wiltshire, Old ...

and a substitute for the narcotic capsule of the opium poppy. Ruck and Staples, 1994. Given her evidently lofty cultic status, her portrayal ...

brief; in 1860, war broke out in China (Second Opium War and the Taiping Rebellion). Gordon volunteered to go, arriving at Tianjin in September. He ...

Protection and Restriction of the Sale of Opium Act. In the early 1900s a former London Missionary Society missionary established Papuan Industries ...

, became the Empress; she later became addicted to opium, and died in a Chinese prison. His third wife was a Manchu, Tan Yuling, whom he married ...

and it is certain that in the Cretan cult sphere, opium was prepared from poppies." Karl Kerenyi, Eleusis: Archetypal Image of Mother and ...

The company was also responsible for the illegal opium trade with China against the Qing Emperor's will, which later led to the two Opium ...

father, Richard Walmesley Blair, worked for the opium department of the Civil Service. His mother, Ida, brought him to Britain at the age of one. He ...

depleted. The main crops are maize, rice, and opium poppies. The Miao practice a traditional form of spirit worship through which they believe they sustain ...

desired) and ending foot-binding, child marriage and opium addiction. Internal passports were introduced in 1956 forbidding travel without appropriate ...

Thomas de Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium-Eater. Written when he was 27 years old and infatuated with Harriet Smithson, who would not ...

the smoking of madak, a blend of tobacco and opium. He also reformed the fiscal administration, greatly improving the state of the Qing treasury ...

in some cases. The advent of Islam introduced opium as a narcotic. Both oil and tar are used to stop bleeding. Oils may be used in a number of ways ...

expert surgeon and the first to report the use of opium as an anesthesia, and to introduce the use of alcohol (Arabic: al-kuhl) for medical purposes ...

case if they were a variant of the idea of an 'opium of the people.'" Contra Barthes, Roland Barthes. Mythologies. (New York: Hill ...

and Japantown. Two of the claimants were opium manufacturers. A federal law banning the manufacture, sale, and importation of opium for non-medicinal ...

through both the harvesting and trafficking of opium. Yunnan remained relatively autonomous throughout the late twentieth century, with varying ...

a center of the British East India Company's opium trade during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; locally produced opium was sold at auction ...

the drug used by the Hashshashin was likely wine, opium, henbane, or some combination of these, and, in any event, the use of this drug was for stupefaction ...

* Brook, Timothy, and Bob T. Wakabayashi. Opium regimes China, Britain, and Japan, 1839-1952. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2000 ...

slave trade, became an early opponent of the Opium trade by placing strict limitations upon its importation, much to the dismay of Calcutta, led an ...

grow more powerful. He drank heavily, consuming Opium pellets, after which he recited poetry. He disdained warfare; after winning a battle would spend ...

and nineteenth centuries, in particular the Opium War. This was mainly due to the fact that China did not come into direct contact with any of ...

and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people. Karl Marx, [https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1843/critique-hpr/intro ...

European imperialism, especially after the Opium Wars. Post-modernist scholarship on China, however argues that this view is simplistic and, at ...

In 1860, during the Second Opium War, Anglo-French forces took control of the Forbidden City and occupied it until the end of the war.China Central ...

olives, and grew poppies, for poppyseed and perhaps opium. The Minoans domesticated bees, and adopted pomegranates and quinces from the Near East, though ...

colonial enclaves in China following the First Opium War of 1839–1842. More reforms were ordered, especially in the economic sector, to strengthen Japan ...

and was unable to write without taking opium. In autumn of that year, he had an epileptic fit, the first of many he would suffer for the remainder ...

an agreement which prohibited the shipment of opium between the two countries. Over a century later, the Foreign Relations Authorization Act requires ...

societal problems such tobacco and opium smoking, gambling and general anarchy by ensuring that the tenets of the Koran were strictly observed ...

in China when the treaty that ended the first Opium War in 1842 granted the British access to five Chinese ports. Western nations built foreign ...

treaties involving Qing China, as well as the Opium Wars, and followed a cautious policy of slow exchange with the West. In 1866 the General Sherman incident ...

Fujian and Guangdong. Events such as the Second Opium War (1856-1860) and the Taiping Rebellion (1851-1864) had caused disruption of agriculture and ...

although Colombia is the area's largest opium producer. Mexico, because of its border with the United States, has the highest incidence of use. ...

The Company discovered a Chinese demand for opium and started exporting it ... authorities at Canton of 20,000 chests of opium belonging to British traders ...

Empire - such as Britain's conduct during the Opium Wars—and other more easily identified empires throughout history. Rothkop identifies the ...

and birthrates. Settlers also brought alcohol, opium, and tobacco; substance abuse has remained a chronic problem for indigenous communities ever since. ...

when we see Mr. Miller ending up getting stoned on opium after his death. When Nashville ends with the shooting of one of the singing stars during the ...

In China, France took part in the Second Opium War along with the United Kingdom, and in 1860 French troops entered Beijing. China was forced ...

Egypt is a transit point for cannabis, heroin, and opium moving to Europe, Israel, and North Africa as well as a transit stop for Nigerian drug ...

- Marx's original reference to religion as the opium of the people. Category: Philosophy and religion Category: Religion 179625172 ...

conduct of a military conflict, the Second Opium War, in 1857. He was replaced by Lord Derby. Amongst the notable events of Derby's administration ...

for areas such as postal mail, aviation, and opium control, some of which would later be absorbed into the UN. Kennedy, 10. However, the League ...

taking an overdose of laudanum, a tincture of opium used as medicine. The Earps moved back to San Francisco during the 1890s so Josie could be ...

smuggling syndicates in the transport of opium through the territory he controlled, in order to make income. Operatie Kraai ("Operation Crow ...

food to the poor. They also opposed the opium trade Austin, 2007 and offered treatment to addicts. ====China Inland Mission==== [[Image:CIM1902 ...

and used guerrilla warfare as well as opium sales to preserve its strength for a final showdown with the Kuomintang. Ming Chu-cheng and Flora ...

The New Imperialism period, with the Scramble for Africa and the Opium Wars, marked the zenith of European colonization. It also marked the acceleration ...