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Author : Hsin-pao Chang
Publisher : Cambridge, Mass., Harvard U. P
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105000093414
Author : Hsin-Pao Chang
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1964-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0674145518
Author : Julia Lovell
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781447204107
‘A gripping read as well as an important one.’ Rana Mitter, Guardian In October 1839, Britain entered the first Opium War with China. Its brutality notwithstanding, the conflict was also threaded with tragicomedy: with Victorian hypocrisy, bureaucratic fumblings, military missteps, political opportunism and collaboration. Yet over the past hundred and seventy years, this strange tale of misunderstanding, incompetence and compromise has become the founding episode of modern Chinese nationalism. Starting from this first conflict, The Opium War explores how China’s national myths mould its interactions with the outside world, how public memory is spun to serve the present, and how delusion and prejudice have bedevilled its relationship with the modern West. ‘Lively, erudite and meticulously researched’ Literary Review ‘An important reminder of how the memory of the Opium War continues to cast a dark shadow.’ Sunday Times
Author : The Arthur Waley Estate,Arthur Waley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781136576720
First published in 1958. This volume translates and places in the appropriate historical context a number of private documents, such as diaries, autobiographies and confessions, which explain what the Opium War felt like on the Chinese side.
Author : Joyce A. Madancy
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781684173891
"In 1908, a very public crusade against opium was in full swing throughout China, and the provincial capital and treaty port of Fuzhou was a central stage for the campaign. This, the most successful attempt undertaken by the Chinese state before 1949 to eliminate opium, came at a time when, according to many historians, China’s central state was virtually powerless. This volume attempts to reconcile that apparent contradiction.The remarkable, albeit temporary, success of the anti-opium campaign between 1906 and 1920 is as yet largely unexplained. How these results were achieved, how that progress was squandered, and why China’s opium problem proved so tenacious are the questions that inspired this volume. The attack on this social problem was led by China’s central and provincial authorities, aided by reformist elites, and seemingly supported by most Chinese. The anti-opium movement relied on the control and oversight provided by a multilayered state bureaucracy, the activism and support of unofficial elite-led reform groups, the broad nationalistic and humanitarian appeal of the campaign, and the cooperation of the British government. The extent to which the Chinese state was able to control the pace and direction of the anti-opium campaign and the evolving nature of the political space in which elite reformers publicized and enforced that campaign are the guiding themes of this analysis."
Author : Stephen R. Platt
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307961747
As China reclaims its position as a world power, Imperial Twilight looks back to tell the story of the country’s last age of ascendance and how it came to an end in the nineteenth-century Opium War. As one of the most potent turning points in the country’s modern history, the Opium War has since come to stand for everything that today’s China seeks to put behind it. In this dramatic, epic story, award-winning historian Stephen Platt sheds new light on the early attempts by Western traders and missionaries to “open” China even as China’s imperial rulers were struggling to manage their country’s decline and Confucian scholars grappled with how to use foreign trade to China’s advantage. The book paints an enduring portrait of an immensely profitable—and mostly peaceful—meeting of civilizations that was destined to be shattered by one of the most shockingly unjust wars in the annals of imperial history. Brimming with a fascinating cast of British, Chinese, and American characters, this riveting narrative of relations between China and the West has important implications for today’s uncertain and ever-changing political climate.
Author : Parker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UBBS:UBBS-00108210
Author : Cornelia Andree
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9783656378044
Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject History - Asia, grade: 1,0, The University of Hong Kong, language: English, abstract: Before 1839, China was closed for Western trader. The only Chinese port, where highly controlled trade between Western merchants and the governmental ap-pointed merchants “Gong Hang” was allowed, was Canton (Guangzhou). Western merchants had to life in separated districts of Canton, could not stay there more than a few months and were prohibited to bring their families or to have contact with Chinese except in trade. Furthermore, Western traders could not contact Chi-nese officials directly and there were no formal diplomatic relations between Chi-na and Western countries. Why did China seal off itself from Western trade so extremely?
Author : Hunt Janin
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0786407158
From 1823 to 1860 a fleet of small, fast brigs and schooners carried chests of opium from India to China, often facing the challenges of pirates and typhoons along the way. This shadowy trade, conducted by American, British, and Indian firms, thrived despite its moral and legal consequences. Drawing largely on primary sources, the story of the opium trade comes through in the voices of those who saw it firsthand. Appendices describe a favorite shipboard recipe, two of the ships involved in the trade and their crews, excerpts from accounts of the Opium War, and language equivalents for proper and place names. A bibliography is included, and maps and photographs help illumine this important and unusual period of history.
Author : Edward Harper Parker,Yuan Wei
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : China
ISBN : STANFORD:36105005004184
Author : Glenn Melancon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351954730
The first Opium War (1840-42) was a defining moment in Anglo-Chinese relations, and since the 1840s the histories of its origins have tended to have been straightforward narratives, which suggest that the British Cabinet turned to its military to protect opium sales and to force open the China trade. Whilst the monetary aspects of the war cannot be ignored, this book argues that economic interests should not overshadow another important aspect of British foreign policy - honour and shame. The Palmerston's government recognised that failure to act with honour generated public outrage in the form of petitions to parliament and loss of votes, and as a result was at pains to take such considerations into account when making policy. Accordingly, British Cabinet officials worried less about the danger to economic interests than the threat to their honour and the possible loss of power in Parliament. The decision to wage a drug war, however, made the government vulnerable to charges of immorality, creating the need to justify the war by claiming it was acting to protect British national honour.
Author : W Travis Hanes III, Ph.D.,Frank Sanello
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2004-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781402252051
A fascinating look at the other side of the Opium Wars In this tragic and powerful story, the two Opium Wars of 1839–1842 and 1856–1860 between Britain and China are recounted for the first time through the eyes of the Chinese as well as the Imperial West. Opium entered China during the Middle Ages when Arab traders brought it into China for medicinal purposes. As it took hold as a recreational drug, opium wrought havoc on Chinese society. By the early nineteenth century, 90 percent of the Emperor's court and the majority of the army were opium addicts. Britain was also a nation addicted—to tea, grown in China, and paid for with profits made from the opium trade. When China tried to ban the use of the drug and bar its Western smugglers from it gates, England decided to fight to keep open China's ports for its importation. England, the superpower of its time, managed to do so in two wars, resulting in a drug-induced devastation of the Chinese people that would last 150 years. In this page-turning, dramatic and colorful history, The Opium Wars responds to past, biased Western accounts by representing the neglected Chinese version of the story and showing how the wars stand as one of the monumental clashes between the cultures of East and West. "A fine popular account."—Publishers Weekly "Their account of the causes, military campaigns and tragic effects of these wars is absorbing, frequently macabre and deeply unsettling."—Booklist
Author : Jack Beeching
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015046361179
An enlightening account of a notorious period in nineteenth-century imperialism, when an effort by the Chinese government to stamp out the country's profitable opium trade resulted in a series of conflicts known as the Opium Wars. Index; illustrations and map.
Author : Chung Tan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015013348894
Author : Haijian Mao
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 571 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107069879
A comprehensive study of the Opium War that presents a revisionist reading of the conflict and its main Chinese protagonists.