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Tea War: The Adventures of Robert Fortune

  • Documentary
  • History
  • TV Movie

July 1, 2016 (FR)

0h 52m

How China's tea was stolen

In the 19th century, China held the monopoly on tea, which was dear and fashionable in the West, and the British Empire exchanged poppies, produced in its Indian colonies and transformed into opium, for Chinese tea. Inundated by the drugs, China was forced to open up its market,...

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