Indeed, the pipe became so closely associated with China that a "Hong Kong opium smoking parlour" with a "living Chinaman" was exhibited at Earls Court in 1899 and when the Chinese government ...

A system of ancient ceramic water pipes, the oldest ever unearthed in China, shows that neolithic people were capable of complex engineering feats without the need for a centralized state ...

Opium pipe, China, Qing dynasty to Republican period, inscribed with cyclical date corresponding to 1868 or 1928. Water buffalo horn, metal, and ceramic.

Opium pipes with a porcelain opium pillow. The pillows were cool and hollow, ... On the history of Chinese immigration to the U.S.: Drummey: "Chinese immigrants to America start early.

China’s ‘Century of Humiliation’ with opium figures into the US fentanyl crisis by David Luckey and Scott Savitz, opinion contributors - 08/07/24 10:00 AM ET ...