Word: opiumeators
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...many times this week had he gone to see the dragon? Five? Six? Ten? Fitz had lost count. But he reckoned he went to the den almost every night and paid Ton, the scraggly opium dealer with a green-and-blue dragon tattooed on his thin upper arm, 50 per pipe to get him off. He lay there, watching the dragon coil and uncoil as Ton flexed his arms, working to heat the night-colored opium, mixing the paste with Mr. Headache powder and then rolling it between his palms into cylinders. He broke off pieces from the roll...
...Chinese see the Olympics as the coming-out party for a once-great civilization hit by a bad couple of centuries, starting with the Opium War and stretching through the 1950s when 20 million people starved to death. Now, they want a bit of credit both for the astonishing riches their hard work has produced and for their country's reemergence as a world power. Playing Olympic host, along with China's expected acceptance into the World Trade Organization, are two markers of the country's triumphant arrival. If some of that credit rebounds to a Communist Party that...
...glamour of their love that style becomes substance. The women don't make their sexual affinity explicit; but one can always feel the breath of the other's erotic interest, and the air goes humid with promise. Seeing Peony Pavilion is like getting high on the opium smoke a beautiful woman exhales as she gazes into your eyes and says, "Maybe...
...Rong says, "I was captivated by Jade's fragrance, her opium, her singing," and the viewer is as well. Rong later has a heterosexual tryst (another hot turn by Daniel Wu), and Jade feels fatally betrayed. But Rong has never consummated her feeling for Jade; she just keeps dangerously near, within kissing distance. Jade can always feel the breath of Rong's erotic interest, and the air goes humid with promise. Yonfan's film is just as tantalizing, as delicately decadent, as Rong's hovering love. Seeing it is like getting high?on the opium smoke a beautiful woman exhales...
...From that time on, the British decided to follow the option of force rather than submission in dealing with China. in the two "Opium Wars" of the early and mid 19th century, the British not only won the right to sell opium (grown in their Indian territories) inside China, but also established the system of low-tariff "Treaty Ports" - of which Shanghai swiftly became the most successful - along with the principle of "extraterritoriality." This stipulated that foreigners committing crimes on Chinese soil or in Chinese waters would be judged by the laws of their own countries rather than by those...