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33586	Merwin, Samuel	Drugging a Nation: The Story of China and the Opium Curse			.txt	text/plain	42403	2023	69	Twenty-five years ago, when the consumption of opium in China could hardly specially-prepared opium direct to China, and advised a trading station on The smoking of opium began in China and is peculiar to the Chinese. importation of opium being strongly prohibited by the Chinese government, No one knows how much opium was grown in China last year. product, opium, has run over China like a black wave, leaving behind it a [Illustration: THE OPIUM HULKS OF SHANGHAI "They Symbolize China's and less opium imported into China each year, till at the end of nine years no opium will be imported at all." The Chinese, it is evident, are again at the beginning, ignored the China trade and the effects of opium government not only manufacturing opium for the China trade, but actually, Indian government developed the opium trade ("for purposes of foreign If the Chinese government loses, opium will win.	./cache/33586.txt	./txt/33586.txt