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Vor 4 Tagen · Written in engaging language, Smoke and Ashes is a scholarly follow-up to the author’s famous Ibis trilogy, a collection of fiction that uses the opium trade as its backdrop. In Smoke and Ashes, the author draws on his years-long research into opium supplemented by his family history, personal travels, cross-cultural experience, and expertise ...
Vor 4 Tagen · opium, narcotic drug that is obtained from the unripe seedpods of the opium poppy (Papaver somniferum), a plant of the family Papaveraceae. (See poppy.) Opium is obtained by slightly incising the seed capsules of the poppy after the plant’s flower petals have fallen.
22. Apr. 2024 · Rumänien im Jahr 1941: Johann Moritz, Landwirt, führt ein einfaches und hartes Leben, bis eines Tages deutsche Militärlaster ins Dorf kommen, um Juden zu verhaften und zu deportieren. Gänzlich perplex wird auch Johann in den Lastwagen gezwungen, wobei er bestreitet, Jude zu sein.
Vor 5 Tagen · Britain provoked this First Opium War in retaliation for China seizing and destroying 1300 tons of Opium held by British drug dealers off Canton (now Guangzhou). This had a value equal to one-sixth of the British empire’s military budget. British Foreign Secretary Palmerston demanded an apology, compensation for the Opium, a treaty to prevent Chinese action against British drug-running, and ...
Vor 4 Tagen · Lecture: Lukas N. Eggert, "Chinese Gaming Culture: The Fine Line between ‘Spiritual Opium’ and Stressing about the Chinese Dream" On Tue, 4th Jun 2024, at 12:00, Lukas Eggert will present a talk in the seminar "Stress and Daily Life of the Middle Classes in China, Germany, India and Japan"
Vor 2 Tagen · The 1840-42 Anglo-Chinese war (the so-called “Opium War”) is almost universally believed to have been triggered by British imperial rapacity and determination to sell more and more opium into China. That belief is mistaken.
Vor 4 Tagen · Among opium-related cancer sites, we estimate that reducing opium use prevalence would have the highest impact on the prevention of lung cancer, ranging from potential prevention of 2,946 (95% CI = 1,454–4,567) to 15,831 (95% CI = 7,290–25,095) incident cases in the 10%–50% opium use prevalence reduction scenarios. Stomach cancer ranked ...
