"When the opium agreement with England came to an end, 10,000,000 of stock was still left in Shanghai. Public opinion compelled the Chinese government to buy it and it was publicly burned for two days. Pootung, Opposite Shanghai" Two large chimneys have smoke pouring out of them. Margaret Hart Barbour, the photographer, was an American Episcopal missionary in Shanghai from 1916 to 1923.
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