Sentences with phrase «chinese opium»

His father, Sir Anthony Bowlby, first Baronet Bowlby, was surgeon to the King's Household, but with a tragic history; at age five, his own father (John's grandfather) had been killed while serving as a war correspondent in the Anglo - Chinese Opium War.

Around the globe, headlines break the news: a scandal takes down an Indian cotton tycoon; a Chinese opium trader dies of an apparent overdose; bombings in Strasbourg and Vienna; the death of an American steel magnate... No one sees the connective thread between these seemingly random events — no one, that is, except the great Sherlock Holmes, who has discerned a deliberate web of death and destruction.

It's just as well, anyway, given the fact that the perspicacious Holmes has been the only detective able to connect the dots among a series of recent slayings, including the murders of an Indian cotton tycoon, a Chinese opium trader and an American Steel magnate, as well as some suspicious bombings in Strasbourg and Vienna.

Not exact matches

Design firm Linehouse transformed a former opium factory into the Chinese flagship office for co-working company WeWork.

Peace was won with a lopsided treaty that infuriated the Chinese, especially in the context of the concessions already imposed after the nineteenth century's Opium Wars.

So Marx saw a parallel between the way the British and French used guns to force opium on the Chinese people in the mid-nineteenth century and the way the Christian church used religion to deaden the social awareness of the working people.

Combined with the place's Chinese - restaurant - of - yesteryear / opium - den decor, the whole experience is a trip.

An opium - addicted gay Colonel, an aging Chinese ex-pat, an escaped slave, and a teen prostitute with...

The pace of missionary expansion increased considerably after the first Anglo - Chinese war (known as the First Opium War, 1839 - 1842) with Christian missionaries, working under the protection of Western powers, playing a major role in Westernizing China in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Ghosh gives the reader a veritable feast of characters: Deeti, the strong - willed wife of Ghazipur opium addict, Hukam Singh; Hukam's uncle ruthless Bhyro, a recruiter of migrant labourers; carpenter Zachary Reid, the son of a Baltimore Negro freedwoman and her white master; Burnham, merchant and closet masochist; Jodu, a boatman; Raja Neel Rattan Halder, a debt - ridden zemindar; Serang Ali, leader of the lascar seamen; James Doughty, a pilot for ships entering Culcutta; Kalua, a low - caste ox - cart driver; Paulette Lambert, the feisty orphaned daughter of a French botanist; Baboo Nob Kissin Pander, Burnham's accountant who is a virgin celibate with strong religious beliefs; Captain Chillingworth, engaged for his last sea - voyage; first - mate Jack Crowle, a man with an inferiority complex and a sizeable cruel streak; and Chinese - Indian opium addict, Ah Fatt.

Ghosh provides information on many subjects: enforced poppy cultivation in India, opium factories and the opium trade with China; opium addiction; the caste system; bore waves; foreign traders in Canton; Chinese pirates.

You also visit the Old City of Shanghai, the Chinese enclave that resisted the influences of the foreign concessions in the aftermath of the Opium Wars, and the Yuyuan Bazaar, a busy shopping quarter adjacent to the city's oldest street.

Cawkell also suggested Canada's harsh sentencing approach to heroin originally stems from discrimination against Chinese railway workers in the 1900s that included negative generalizations about their use of opium, Spies noted.