Is the skull a reminder of the transitory nature of life? I also think of the Victorian Opium dens in London and the influence of and trade with the Chinese people who ran the dens. It makes me ...

Opium was legal in Canada until 1907 ... was a row of cabins the World’s reporter found to be “more or less dens of gambling, inequity, shame and vice.” And not just vice for the Chinese ...

PROF. ZHENG YANGWEN:'By the 1820s, opium addiction became visible socially.' Which means opium dens on the street, people dying off, dozing off on the street, it's becoming a social problem.