Join me on a journey through history as we explore the shadowy legacy of the Opium Wars in the heart of Hong Kong. From ...

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The Professor of English Language and Literature at Brock University specifically notes that the First Opium War, fought between China and the British Empire from 1839–1842, began as a trade ...

The Chinese resisted the opium trade. This led to war, after the Chinese destroyed all the British opium in China. The Chinese army and navy were no match for the British navy. As a result of ...

Its author, historian Goichi Yamada, died in an accident after he published ... Yamada would often say that opium was an “underhand source of revenue” for Japan. “The war economy went ...

He was referring to the two 19th-century Opium Wars China lost to Britain and France, after which it was forced to buy large volumes of the drug and concede parts of its territory to colonial ...