Delirul alb: de la izvoare la estuare – Secolul XIX: când britanicii „inundau” China cu opiu –

The White Delirium: From Sources to Estuasies

Drugs, this big scourge of the world today. But how did they spread in Europe and in the world? How did it go from opium medication, to drug opium, a generator of illusions and fantasies? Have economic doctrines played a role in this mutation? It’s interesting to pick up a little corner of the curtain of this show …

Keywords: opium, phantasms, Oriental India Company, British Empire, “opium wars”, causes of drug use.

Philippe Chassaigne, „Quand les anglais enfumaient la Chine”, Historia, nr.858, Juin 2018
Hugues Demeude, „Opium-la grande histoire d’un empoisonnement planétaire”,Histoire, loc.cit.
Dan Popescu, „Delirul alb”, în „Terra – lumini și umbre”, Edit. Sport-Turism București, 1988

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