Howard Chua-Eoan is a columnist for Bloomberg Opinion covering culture and business. He previously served as Bloomberg Opinion's international editor and is a former news director at Time magazine.

The Qing dynasty lasted over 250 years ... in the name of defending trade. The First Opium War lasted from 1839 to 1842. The British Royal Navy had much better guns and easily defeated the ...

The Opium Wars of the mid-19th century were fought between the Western powers and the Qing dynasty, which ruled China from 1644 to 1912. Two wars took place, both fought essentially over the ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The Opium Wars made it clear China had fallen gravely behind the West — not just militarily, but economically and politically. Every Chinese government ...

A HUGE mistake saw a vase valued at hundreds of pounds go on to sell for a whopping £53million. Airing in the 1960s and 1970s, BBC programme Going for a Song was somewhat of a precursor to the ...

The Opium Wars, a 19th-century armed conflict between the Qing Dynasty and the British Empire, is narrated by a history professor who has a hypnotic effect on his students.

This reflects the exhaustion of the Qing’s capacity for self-renewal, and the social stagnation of that era would eventually cost the dynasty dearly in the two Opium Wars. Sixth Tone: I was also ...

In the 1970s, a working-class British couple brought the vase to 'Going for a Song', where it was evaluated as a fake by an expert.

A British couple took it on the series (originally presented by Max Robertson) on which ‘connoisseurs and customers explore the world of antiques’ and were left disappointed when the vase was dubbed a ...

The story of the Opium War between China, in the waning days of the Qing Dynasty, and the British Empire, in the 1830s, and the subsequent takeover of Hong Kong by Britain; through the eyes of the ...