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http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/CHING/OPIUM.HTM
Growing opium in India, the East India Company shipped tons of opium
into Canton which it traded for Chinese manufactured goods and for
tea. This trade had produced, quite literally, a country filled with
drug addicts, as opium parlors proliferated all throughout China in
the early part of the nineteenth century... The effects on Chinese
society were devastating. In fact, there are few periods in Chinese
history that approach the early nineteenth century in terms of pure
human misery and tragedy. In an effort to stem the tragedy, the
imperial government made opium illegal in 1836 and began to
aggressively close down the opium dens.
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