Opium Regimes: China, Britain, and Japan, 1839-1952 - Google Books

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Opium is more than just a drug extracted from poppies. Over the past two centuries it has been a palliative medicine, an addictive substance, a powerful mechanism for concentrating and transferring wealth and power between nations, and the anchor for a now…