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Silk Silver Opium: The Trade with China that Changed History Collection_Time and the Prime Meridian and sponges harbouring potent cancer-fightingSilk Silver Opium not only tells the fascinating stories of silk and tea, porcelain, silver and opium, missionaries, mercenaries and trade, but also what became inevitable war and humiliation. Much about Chinas modern relationship with the West is the product of its past inter reactions, conflicts, victories and humiliations. The South China Sea was the place from where the ultimately destructive European sailing ships arrived. The Ryukyu Island chain