Title
Two Chinese opium smokers
Year/Period
Late 19th century
Region
China
Dimension
Image size: 9.1 x 14 cm
Accession No.
1995-00536
Collection of
In 19th-century Chinese society, opium smoking was accepted as a social grace. To both the elite and the poor, offering a guest an opium pipe was likened to serving tea. Situated in Guangdong Province, Kwang-Chou-Wan became known as Territoire de Kouang-Tchéou-Wan (as inscribed on this postcard) after it was annexed by the French in 1898.
