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Patrick Chiu
Patrick Chiu
Patrick Chiu (Manchu name Irgen Gioro) is an author and pharmaceutical historian who previously had a business career in Canada, mainland China and Singapore. He was born in Guangzhou and can trace his origins back to the Bordered Yellow Tribe who lived near Kirin, Manchuria (now Changchun, Jilin province, northeast China).

Watsons today is Asia’s leading retail health and beauty chain. It’s an empire that was built on selling opium and opiates in colonial Hong Kong, writes Patrick Chiu in this excerpt from a forthcoming book.