Fonctionnaires chinois veillant au salut de l'empire!, 1859. Chinese officials ensuring the salvation of the empire! (The Opium Wars arose from China’s attempts to suppress the opium trade. The French and other foreign traders had been illegally exporting opium, mainly from India, to China). From Actualités.

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