Opium and Tea–Schivelbusch (1)/ 鸦片和茶
November 28, 2006 by Dun Wang
Opium for tea—a formula which not only explains the successes of English imperialism in the Far East, but which thoroughly typified Europe’s relationship to the Third World.
Wolfgang Schivelbusch, Tastes of Paradise: A Social History of Spices, Stimulants, and Intoxicants (New York: Pantheon Books, 1992), 223.
