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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 ...12 KB (1,653 words) - 19:28, 21 August 2020
- of his book Confessions of an English Opium-Eater. First published in ... " During this time he began to take opium. He left, apparently about ...10 KB (1,469 words) - 21:06, 30 April 2023
- The Treaty of Nanking (Nánjīng Tiáoyuē) is the agreement which marked the end of the First Opium War between the United Kingdom and China ...13 KB (2,030 words) - 23:41, 21 April 2020
- is not all positive as one species is the opium poppy (Papaver somniferum ... * Papaver—— Iceland poppy, Oriental poppy, Opium poppy, corn poppy ...16 KB (2,490 words) - 11:58, 13 February 2022
- to move to a new defense position, Opium Hill. Opium Hill or Bukit Chandu, in Malay, had been named after an opium ...11 KB (1,690 words) - 10:18, 22 September 2023
- 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 ...9 KB (1,258 words) - 12:01, 5 May 2023
- neuralgic pain and became addicted to opium. His much-admired poem "Kubla ... Beginning in 1796, Coleridge started using opium as a pain reliever ...13 KB (2,014 words) - 03:03, 23 December 2022
- poems, an anti-imperialistic account of the Opium War entitled, “Through ... the Study of Chinese Painting (1923), The Opium War Through Chinese Eyes ...12 KB (1,793 words) - 17:37, 16 August 2023
- it left him stunned, despondent and prey to opium addiction. Opponents of that ... His opium addiction at the time, Cocteau said, was only coincidental ...15 KB (2,215 words) - 17:01, 4 July 2022
- fortune in the fur trade, real estate, and opium. Astor was a very ambitious ... line/shows/heroin/etc/history.html Opium throughout History] ...8 KB (1,194 words) - 07:02, 8 April 2024
- On May 18, 1839, be outlawed the use of opium. Thailand, and Rama. Proclamation against Opium, 18 May 1839. Bangkok: ...8 KB (1,232 words) - 17:22, 16 April 2023
- 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 ...16 KB (2,404 words) - 08:12, 24 November 2022
- 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 ...15 KB (2,312 words) - 10:51, 11 April 2024
- who was known as a womanizer and an opium addict, would more easily ... influence in Manchuria, overcame his opium addiction, and declared his ...11 KB (1,688 words) - 05:58, 13 June 2023
- [[Image:325px-First Opium War Smuggling.jpg|thumb|right|250px|1921 ... In late Qing Imperial China, opium imported by the British East India ...41 KB (6,357 words) - 21:12, 30 January 2024
- images of Buddhist and Taoist deities to opium pipe (Martin 2007). ... * Martin, S. 2007. The Art of Opium Antiques. Chiang Mai, Thailand: ...12 KB (1,807 words) - 03:52, 13 March 2024
- Baudelaire's own life mirrored his art. He became addicted to ... troubled times he began experimenting with opium, and in Brussels Baudelaire ...15 KB (2,281 words) - 01:56, 4 December 2023
- In 1842 the British defeated Chinese forces in the First Opium War ... French military force during the Second Opium War, coupled with the flight ...21 KB (3,156 words) - 22:30, 29 January 2023
- war against Great Britain in the First Opium War. The ruling Qing dynasty ... * Other new laws were promulgated including the prohibition of opium ...20 KB (2,973 words) - 00:49, 21 April 2023
- ====Opium trade==== In the eighteenth century, opium was highly sought after by the Chinese ...38 KB (6,054 words) - 02:25, 22 November 2023
