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Silver and Opium

- Antal E. Fekete - Gold University

China,s Administration became increasingly "dominated" by a careerist Eunuch class.Since the time of Admiral Cheng Ho ,at least.What are termed Mandarins in the Western medias.Indo-China as well too.The last of these civil servants survived well into the 20th C.It was a career option in much of the Near East as well too.So it would seem to be a fairly ingrained "practice".The CPC also has a habit of getting involved in its citizens private sexual lives.The charge against North Korea,s Autarch,s uncle was one of sexual deviancy.Of course the Royal Navy has a glorious tradition of sodomy as well.But it was never a popular career changer.....I am not aware of much reference to it in fiction.Although Mailer in "Naked and the Dead" appears to touch on it in the Pacific Theatre.Maybe my humble academic achievements are at fault here.

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Beginning of the headline :From the mid-17th century more than 9 billion Troy ounces or 290 thousand metric tons of silver was absorbed by China from European countries in exchange for Chinese goods. The British introduced opium along with tobacco as an export item to China... Read More

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