Tea and opium are as left and right, as east and west, as day and night: as different, and as inseparably entwined. The following notes are intended as just as many contributions to the joint history of tea and opium – which is also the history of our joint world.

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“Tea and opium: variations”, in Farhad Kalantary, A new beginning (Oslo: Atopia, 2013), pp. 27–43 (17 p.). Read the entire text here (or the Swedish original here).