For the Greatest Interviews series, we revisit one reluctant writer’s absorbing 1968 meeting with another equally reluctant ...

Hagi Castle, which sadly was dismantled by government ... After the British defeat of the Qing dynasty in the Opium War and the arrival of the Black Ships, the need for coastal defenses became ...

Mary Carr, played in A Thousand Blows by Erin Doherty, was one of the groups early ringleaders. According to the historian Beezy Marsh, she was a “golden-haired beauty”, having cut her teeth as a ...

The monarch died at Balmoral Castle in Scotland on September 8 ... they first occupied Hong Kong Island in 1841 during the First Opium War. He added that one massacre was recorded during the ...

CBSA found 14 kilos of opium in his luggage You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account. After an Ontario real estate agent returning from a trip to ...

In 1839, Lin was the Qing dynasty official who confronted the British and their illegal opium trade that pushed the substance on Chinese users; he confiscated 20,000 chests of the drug and cast ...

opium, coal. The flexible category proves a rich source of material in scholarly essays collected by Juliet Carey and Abigail Green, with archival imagery and moody photographs by Helene Binet.

Hugh Cecil Lowther was a real English peer and sportsman during the period around which A Thousand Blows is set. He’s the ...

The first real attempt to regulate drugs in the U.S. occurred in 1890, when, amid rampant drug abuse, Congress enacted a law taxing morphine and opium. In the years that followed, cocaine use ...

Readings that the podcast’s guests say shaped their thinking. “The Ezra Klein Show” explores ideas with some of today’s most dynamic thinkers. We cover politics, culture, history ...