Étiquette : opium

Dear readers, fellow gamers, We hope you are all well and safe. Who does not love a good gangster story? With subtle threats, seedy trafficking, political corruption and open violence? These ingredients, mixed together, are the bread and butter of many more or less historical successful fictions – the Godfather, Scarface, Peaky Blinders, etc. China […]

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Dear readers, fellow gamers, We hope you are all well in theses difficult times of Covid-19, stay home and stay safe! Today’s post is a focus (as the title implied) on opium. We have all have in mind stereotypical images of Chinese people, lying down in cloudy opium dens, opium pipe in hand, looking dazed […]

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Dear readers, fellow gamers, We are coming back to the second part of our focus on opium, finally talking about the timeframe we are all interested in (thanks to RoWS): the 1920-1930s! We apologise for the small number of pictures. They are incredibly hard to find! Cultivating opium Where and how? Chinese peasants traditionally grow […]

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