SeanBurlington 🌈 🕊️Is China still holding a grude about that time Britain forced them to allow our opium in?
Michael Höckelmann 何彌夏🇹🇼🇭🇰🇪🇺#BOTD (2024/08/30): Lin Zexu Lin Zexu #林則徐 (1785–1850), whose seizure of British opium in Guangdong/Canton sparked the First #OpiumWar #鴉片戰爭 (1839–42).
#OTD 1839: Lin Zexu #林則徐 (1785–1850), Imperial Commissioner of the Qing #清 (1636–1911) seizes and destroys over 1,000 tons of Opium from #British traders at Humen 虎門 in Canton #廣東, #China, setting the spark to the First #OpiumWar #鴉片戰爭 1839–42. #ModernChina #虎門銷菸
bs2> China in the eighteenth century had the most effective civil service in the world. It was unique in its capacity to deal with large-sale environmental events and to relieve famine...
https://jacobin.com/2018/10/mike-davis-late-victorian-holocausts-famine-mao-stalin
#ChineseEconomy #MikeDavis on #China Pre- #OpiumWar #OpiumTrade #ChinaTrade
TofueaterThis little dog was stolen from the body of a Chinese lady at the Summer Palace in Beijing after British troops sacked it during the Second Opium War. She was given to Queen Victoria who named her "Looty".
Seems like a good time to remember the British record in China.
#uk #ukhistory #opiumwar #china
Seems like a good time to remember the British record in China.
#uk #ukhistory #opiumwar #china
MattCarrollThe Business of Addiction: Opium, China Trade & the Forbes Family Fortune http://bit.ly/3WU80Tw @Gobserver_nu @seb_grace #opiumwar #china #chinatrade @ForbesHouse
The Business of Addiction: Opium, China Trade & the Forbes Family Fortune
It’s an unsavory history, not often dwelled upon in Western history books. In the 1800s, international traders – many from Boston – sold opium to the Chinese in exchange for tea, silk and porcelain. For those New England families, and others in countries such as England and France, it was a lucrative business that helped...
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I think I'm making refugees,
I really think so.
I'm making refugees
#IThinkImMakingRefugees,
I really think so.
No sex,
No drugs,
No wine,
No gambling,
These Arab folks are filling up our Heaven,
It's wrong…
(To be continued)
#theMilitarySong #biden #fediLyrics #may1 #pullOutMay1 #biden #natoDisband #afghanistan #syria #venezuela #lithiumWar #opiumWar #refugeeProduction #compliantWorkers #corporateFascism #corporateState
I'm making refugees
I think I'm making refugees,
I really think so.
I'm making refugees
#IThinkImMakingRefugees,
I really think so.
No sex,
No drugs,
No wine,
No gambling,
These Arab folks are filling up our Heaven,
It wrong…
(To be continued)
#theMilitarySong #biden #fediLyrics #may1 #pullOutMay1 #biden #natoDisband #Afghanistan #lithiumWar #opiumWar #refugeeProduction #compliantWorkers #corporateFascism #corporateState
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