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Amitav Ghosh’s Reckoning With Opium
The New Republic via Yahoo News· 3 months agoIt takes some daring to choose opium as your historical protagonist. The milky sap of the poppy flower has taken so many forms across so many centuries...
Ramaswamy says in GOP debate that we're in 'modern opium war' on overdoses in Alabama, US
The Montgomery Advertiser via Yahoo News· 6 months agoDuring the Republican presidential primary debate in Tuscaloosa on Wednesday evening, biotech...
Why is China strengthening its military? It’s not all about war.
Defense News via Yahoo News· 1 year agoChina’s rapid military modernization has spurred considerable fear that the country could provoke a...
Drugs, wars and international intrigue on display at Forbes House Museum in Milton
Patriot Ledger via Yahoo News· 2 years agoMILTON − The opium that flooded 19th-century China destroyed lives and unraveled society under the...
Why is China denying Hong Kong was ever a British colony?
LA Times via Yahoo News· 2 years agoChinese and Hong Kong flags on Friday mark the 25th anniversary of Hong Kong's handover to China...
Timeline: Hong Kong under 25 years of Chinese rule
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe following are key events in the history of Hong Kong, which marked the 25th anniversary of its handover from British to Chinese rule on Friday. China...
China, opium and racial capitalism: Amitav Ghosh on the roots of a deadly business
LA Times via Yahoo News· 4 months agoIn 'Smoke and Ashes,' Amitav Ghosh draws comparisons between America's modern opioid crisis and the West's flooding of China with opium in the 18th century.
‘Smoke and Ashes’ Review: The Colonial Narco-State
The Wall Street Journal· 3 months agoAmitav Ghosh doesn’t mince words, especially when writing of British imperialism in India, the land of his birth, or of Britain’s role in China, the land...
Opinion: America's movement toward true multi-ethnicity has been filled with resistance
Asheville Citizen-Times via Yahoo News· 3 months agoI grew up in China where I was part of an ethnic minority. Many of the people there called us...
Myanmar opium cultivation surged 33% amid violence, UN finds
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe production of opium in Myanmar has flourished since the military's seizure of power, with the...