Sentences with phrase «opium trade with»
This animation, The Last Post, first created for the exhibition By Day, By Night, or Some (Special) Things a Museum Can Do at the Rockbund Art Museum (Shanghai) in 2010, is inspired by Sikander's ongoing interest in the colonial history of the sub-continent and the British opium trade with China.
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Also on view is Shahzia Sikander's «The Last Post,» an animated video installation inspired by the New York - based artist's interest in the colonial history of India and the British opium trade with China.
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.
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Ancient people from Turkey to Egypt experimented with local substances such as blue water lily, while imports like cannabis and opium made from poppies spread through early international trade networks.
Rather than embed with just one individual or group or take only a drug war framing to the transportation of narcotics, «The Trade» follows a number of different throughlines: the boss of an opium poppy production field, addicts in various stages of treatment, police officials in Mexico City and Dayton, Ohio.
Finally, a two - channel video installation with ephemeral objects by James T. Hong plays as a counterpoint to the other works, performing the history of maritime commerce in Hong Kong with a focus on the opium trade.
The British elites families have been running Opium since 1601, and still control with the Pentagram the world's dope trade.