Opium and Tea--Schivelbusch (1)/ 鸦片和茶

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.