Opium Nation Analysis

Afghanistan gets caught in a never ending spiral of colonialism and post-colonialism. While this all looks flat on paper, Hosseini brings the post-colonial problems of government, nationalism and culture straight to the reader by presenting the conflicts through the lives of their citizens. By doing

Imperialism is like a kingpin putting his hardest working, most experienced partners in a territory that they have sole control over, with the main job of making the money to bring back to the kingpin, getting their “cut” thereafter. It was the same for the British. Imperialism was vastly growing in the new British Empire. New Imperialism gave rise in East Asia and Africa with the new trade networks and new products and goods that were made to be profitable. According to Abina and the Important Men, palm oil became a new “golden” standard for the British. It was a necessity to how machines in factories worked post-Industrialization era. As for East Asia, opium became extremely profitable, although it put many of the population(s) at extreme

The Rugmaker of Mazar-E-Sharif Conflict by Najaf Mazari and Robert Tillman is a novel about Najaf's memoir of having to live with conflict and of enduring its in-depth consequences. Melbourne-based fiction writer and biographer Robert Hillman helps Najaf tell his story and also the representation of the author in the novel. Hillman's collaboration with Najaf on The Rugmaker of Mazar-e-Sharif continues Zar-e-Sharif his literary preoccupation with the hardships and triumphs of ordinary people caught up in war and political unrest. The background of the book depicts Najaf's homeland that has a long history of violent and bitter armed conflict that spans centuries. This is partly due to the region's geography. As Najaf says, 'just look at the location of Afghanistan on a map of Asia and the Middle East, with neighbors' and near-neighbors' like Russia, Pakistan and Iran' (p.34). The area has enormous geographical and strategic significance. Foreign powers, from the ancient Macedonians through to the colonial British and communist Russians, have striven to secure territory or allies there, with little regard for the desires of the local people. This essay will give us an analysis of The Rugmaker of Mazar-E-Sharif's characters Najaf Mazari, and Gorg Aliant plus the plot of the book. The Rugmaker of Mazar-e-Sharif traces an Afghani refugee's extraordinary journey from his early life as a shepherd boy in the mountains of Northern

During the 19th century, China transformed from a prosperous economic center to a weakened country in a system controlled by Great Britain, largely due to the opium trade. Prior to Europe’s industrial revolution in 1800, China had little need for products from other countries, and participated sparingly in world trade, while Europe borrowed China’s ideas and inventions to gain a financial foothold. But in the 19th century Britain introduced opium into the Chinese market, setting off a chain of events that lead to the Opium Wars, which along with the opium trade sapped China’s economic strength. Nevertheless, she persisted, and in 1907 China passed a law that blocked the opium trade once and for all and took out Britain’s system of power within

Hosseini begins to show the loss of innocence and the effects of the conflict with the Soviet takeover. “The generation of Afghan

The connotation of the word may give the meaning of power or someone who is powerful. But the definition based off an example gives a literal definition; the act of a country to take over other nearby countries, to gain power and economic influence. An example of imperialism is the Opium Wars (Britain and China). The Chinese and the British were in war because British wanted to dominate and have all the goods that came from China like opium. This is why the example of the the Opium War will help understand the definition of what imperialism means in a real life situation. It all started with looking for which surrounding territory was more beneficial for the British. Having leaders to lead them into the war. Lastly, by having major events

To contextualize relevant to the political, social, and economic causes and effects of the first and second opium wars during the modern period 1750-1900 CE, the rate of interconnectedness, industrialization and global integration was rapidly increasing in the western hemisphere while the eastern hemisphere, specifically China, was experiencing great misfortune. At this time there was a significantly high demand for Chinese goods in Europe such as porcelain and chinese silk, but the Chinese did not have a demand for goods in Europe. Since China accumulated most of the silver from Europe there was an unbalanced distribution of silver, which caused the Europeans to start selling opium to the Chinese in order to restore the flow of silver out of China. This resulted in the first opium war in 1839- 1842, the major Civil war in 1850-1864, and second opium war in 1856-1860 which horrendously affected China’s economy, government, and social relations.

In the ethnographic chronicle, When Bamboo Bloom, by Patricia Omidian, Omidian traveled to Afghanistan to work with, aid, and better understand Afghans. However, her the Taliban limited her quality and quantity of work. Their control over the land constantly changed which forced her to deal with different environments each time she journeyed there. In 1998, she worked for Save the Children (SAVE) in Kabul on the land mine project that taught children how to avoid land mines. In 2000, Novib hired her and tasked her to work with the Shuhada Organization in Hazarajat to evaluate their programs, help develop a strategic plan at their program’s home office and take it back to the Afghan staff so that they could develop an action plan for their health program. In 2001, she worked in Herat for the Coordination of Humanitarian Assistance (CHA) and helped develop a mental health program to aid their staff cope with life under the Taliban and the stress of living as refugees.

With the Taliban beginning its reigns on Afghanistan, darkness took over the nation. Terror became a more common installment into the minds of the citizens. Hearing the rumble of the jeeps, the bangs of the AK-47s, and the bombs setting off can send a shiver down anyone’s back. Families are torn apart, children forget what play time is, schools are destroyed. The injustice that the Taliban brought is defined through the cruelest of actions. “There are a lot of children in Afghanistan, but little childhood.” (Hosseini, 1) With their regime, the Taliban established radical rules that limited the country to all but making the essential function of speaking, barely legal. The effect of the Taliban begin to spread specifically towards Amir and his family. With the beginning the war, Amir sees his

The opium problem in China during the nineteenth century was primarily viewed as an issue created by foreign traders bringing opium into their empire. Zhu Zun and Xu Naiji wrote memoranda in 1863 elucidating their diverging view to the government on how to combat the issue of opium use and trade. Xu advocated for the relaxing of anti-opium laws as a means of reducing illegal smuggling, while Zhu contends that more stringent enforcement of anti-opium laws is the preferable policy, which Commissioner Lin supports in his edict to foreign traders.

1.). A central topic encountered in “Opium Brides” was corruption. The opium bride movement consisted of daughters, of the borrowing farmer, were traded to repay a debt to the drug dealers. The Frontline segment revealed corruption within Afghanistan’s government, economy, and social construct to be the leading cause of the opium bride movement. The narrator states,” 200,000 opium farming families produce over 90% of the opium output.”. Multiple opium farming families confessed to the consequences of the government destroying their loaned crops. Not only did the drug dealers take their daughters but also killed the family of the borrower, killed the borrower, or took their sons. Thousands of these families stated that they’ve faced the struggles

The Opium Dealer was the first to speak. All knew he was a man of great physique Since he fought in the war of Mozambique As well as ‘gainst the Sheikhs and Sikhs. He learned the savages and how they thought: He had the Maxim gun, and they had not.

The Opium Wars were a series of three wars between the Chinese and the British; primarily fought in regard to the illegal trade of opium in China during the 19th century. They manifested the conflicting natures of both nations and demonstrated China’s misconceptions of its own superiority. The Opium Wars resulted in the humiliating defeat of the Chinese to a country they considered to be “barbarians”.

The Opium Trade became an immense part of the prosperity and wealth for the British during the nineteenth century. It became clear that their European influence had rapidly dominated, thus making countries such as China vulnerable to their control, especially during the opium trade. Multiple historians have argued that it was highly unlikely that countries that were so geographically apart have any influence on each other, but as seen with the British opium trade in China, it showed the strength of their influence in the world.

My first choice is the Opium Wars. Throughout the beginning of major overseas exploration and trade, China had remained with its doors closed to most foreigners. Tobacco was one product that China did buy from Europeans in the seventeenth century (WTWA 4th ed. 588). Not long after, opium was integrated into the cigarettes (notes. Nov. 26). In 1729, China banned the import of Opium, but it continued to circulate in the Chinese society (WTW 4th ed. 588). In the early 19th century, Britain was comfortable with selling drugs to China. This upset the Chinese, so they seized and destroyed one of Britain’s opium shipments. In turn, Britain wanted compensation and a war broke out. This lead to the signing of the Treaty of Nanjing, in which the Chinese