BBC World Histories - 08.2019 - 09.2019

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Chinese opium smokers in a saloon,

depicted in a mid-19th-century British

engraving. The drug, most of which

was imported from India by British

merchants, fuelled a growing addiction

crisis in China, but the illicit trade

also depleted China’s silver reserves

and severely damaged its economy

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