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Author : Wenzao Wu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1928
Category : China
ISBN : UCAL:$B50267
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 662 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1840
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044009641267
Author : China
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1840
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : MINN:31951P00431427S
Author : Glenn Melancon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 50,7 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 : Harold Isaacs
Publisher : Haymarket Books
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2010-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781608461097
The story of how China's modern development rests on the tragically supressed struggle for true socialism.
Author : Hans Derks
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 851 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004221581
Covering a period of about four centuries, this book demonstrates the economic and political components of the opium problem. As a mass product, opium was introduced in India and Indonesia by the Dutch in the 17th century. China suffered the most, but was also the first to get rid of the opium problem around 1950.
Author : Song-Chuan Chen
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789888390564
Author : Curtis Marez
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0816640599
Inaugurated in 1984, America's "War on Drugs" is just the most recent skirmish in a standoff between global drug trafficking and state power. From Britain's nineteenth-century Opium Wars in China to the activities of Colombia's drug cartels and their suppression by U.S.-backed military forces today, conflicts over narcotics have justified imperial expansion, global capitalism, and state violence, even as they have also fueled the movement of goods and labor around the world. In Drug Wars, cultural critic Curtis Marez examines two hundred years of writings, graphic works, films, and music that both demonize and celebrate the commerce in cocaine, marijuana, and opium, providing a bold interdisciplinary exploration of drugs in the popular imagination. Ranging from the writings of Sigmund Freud to pro-drug lord Mexican popular music, gangsta rap, and Brian De Palma's 1983 epic Scarface, Drug Wars moves from the representations and realities of the Opium Wars to the long history of drug and immigration enforcement on the U.S.-Mexican border, and to cocaine use and interdiction in South America, Middle Europe, and among American Indians. Throughout Marez juxtaposes official drug policy and propaganda with subversive images that challenge and sometimes even taunt government and legal efforts. As Marez shows, despite the state's best efforts to use the media to obscure the hypocrisies and failures of its drug policies-be they lurid descriptions of Chinese opium dens in the English popular press or Nancy Reagan's "Just Say No" campaign-marginalized groups have consistently opposed the expansion of state power that drug traffic has historically supported. Curtis Marez is assistant professorof critical studies at the University of Southern California School of Cinema-Television.
Author : H. Gelber
Publisher : Springer
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2004-02-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230000704
This book questions the universal belief that England's 1840-42 war with China was an 'Opium War'. What really worried London was 'insults to the crown', the claim of a dilapidated and corrupt China to be superior to everyone, threats to British men and women and seizure of British property, plus the wish to expand and free trade everywhere. It was only much later that general Chinese resentment and Evangelical opinion at home - and in America - persuaded everyone that Britain had indeed been wicked and fought for opium.
Author : Stephen R. Platt
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 40,5 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 : Horst Jürgen Helle
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004330603
In China: Promise or Threat? Helle compares the cultures of China and the West through both private and public spheres. For China, the private sphere of family life is well developed while behaviour in public relating to matters of government and the law is less reliable. In contrast, the West operates in reverse. The book’s twelve chapters investigate the causes and effects of threats to the environment, military confrontations, religious differences, fundamentals of cultural history, and the countries’ orientations for finding solutions to societal problems, all informed by the Confucian impulse to recapture the lost splendour of a past versus faith in progress toward a blessed future. The West has promoted individualism while China is locked in its kinship society.
Author : W Travis Hanes III, Ph.D.,Frank Sanello
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 46,5 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 : National Institute of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice. Office of Technology Transfer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 820 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Crime
ISBN : PSU:000057529530
Author : United States. Department of Justice
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 820 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123776911
Author : Alan Baumler
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Opium abuse
ISBN : 0472067680
An intriguing historical examination of China's widespread opium epidemic