Cool “Opium Addiction” Images
Some cool opium addiction images:
The Ninth Floor by Jessica Dimmock
Image by MediaStorm
View The Ninth Floor at http://www.mediastorm.org/0021.htm
Hidden in an elegant building in a wealthy Manhattan neighborhood, was a sprawling apartment filled with young drug addicts. This is the story of their battle with addiction, each other, and themselves as they search for some kind of redemption.
GIRLS WITH BOUND FEET SMOKING DOPE in an OPIUM DEN in CANTON — The Addicts World of OLD CHINA
Image by Okinawa Soba
It probably made their feet feel a whole lot better !
Girl on the left is probably reading a newspaper article about how China wanted to get rid of Opium, but had it rammed down their throats by the British !
"…….The Opium Wars, also known as the Anglo-Chinese Wars, lasted from 1839 to 1842 and 1856 to 1860, the climax of a trade dispute between China under the Qing Dynasty and the British Empire. British smuggling of opium from British India into China in defiance of China’s drug laws erupted into open warfare between Britain and China.
China’s defeat in both wars left its government having to tolerate the opium trade. Britain forced the Chinese government into signing the Treaty of Nanjing and the Treaty of Tianjin, also known as the Unequal Treaties, which included provisions for the opening of additional ports to foreign trade, for fixed tariffs; for the recognition of both countries as equal in correspondence; and for the cession of Hong Kong to Britain.
The British also gained extraterritorial rights. Several countries followed Britain and sought similar agreements with China. Many Chinese found these agreements humiliating and these sentiments are considered to have contributed to the Taiping Rebellion (1850-1864), the Boxer Rebellion (1899-1901), and the downfall of the Qing Dynasty in 1912, putting an end to dynastic China. The Opium Wars forcefully and suddenly opened China to the world……"
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_Wars
Full stereoview image seen here : www.flickr.com/photos/24443965@N08/3489657647/in/photostr…
The gruesome details of how the feet were actually crushed are found in the caption of this photo : www.flickr.com/photos/24443965@N08/3462167744/in/set-7215…
Here…. have a look under the wrappings : www.flickr.com/photos/24443965@N08/3461349265/in/set-7215…
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Photographed in 1900 by an unknown camera man sent out by Ben Kilburn of New Hampshire, USA, to take photos for his line of stereoviews. This photographer, who liked closely cropped images of people groups, toured Japan, Korea, China, and the Philippines taking hundreds of classic images.
THE POPPY FIELDS of OLD CHINA — The Fisrt Step in the Production of Opium, Morphine, and Heroin
Image by Okinawa Soba
Ca.1900 image. Photographer unknown.
Before there were the OPIUM WARS of the 19th Century, China was was the recipient of illegally imported OPIUM to the tune of 900 tons a year. No matter how much the Chinese Government (located in the North) tried to stop it with laws and decrees, it just kept pouring in through the south…mainly smuggled in by the BRITISH. This led to war, which the British won, after which Opium became the life of the party for an entire nation.