The Opium Trade

Author : Stephen R. Platt
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307961747

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Imperial Twilight by Stephen R. Platt Pdf

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 : Julia Lovell
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781447204107

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The Opium War by Julia Lovell Pdf

‘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 : W Travis Hanes III, Ph.D.,Frank Sanello
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2004-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781402252051

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The Opium Wars by W Travis Hanes III, Ph.D.,Frank Sanello Pdf

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 : Mariner Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : China
ISBN : 0156170949

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The Chinese Opium Wars by Jack Beeching Pdf

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 : Hunt Janin
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0786407158

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The India-China Opium Trade in the Nineteenth Century by Hunt Janin Pdf

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 : Hans Derks
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 851 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004221581

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History of the Opium Problem by Hans Derks Pdf

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 : Nathan Allen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1853
Category : Opium trade
ISBN : HARVARD:32044024213514

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The Opium Trade by Nathan Allen Pdf

Author : Peter Ward Fay
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2000-11-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807861363

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The Opium War, 1840-1842 by Peter Ward Fay Pdf

This book tells the fascinating story of the war between England and China that delivered Hong Kong to the English, forced the imperial Chinese government to add four ports to Canton as places in which foreigners could live and trade, and rendered irreversible the process that for almost a century thereafter distinguished western relations with this quarter of the globe-- the process that is loosely termed the "opening of China." Originally published by UNC Press in 1975, Peter Ward Fay's study was the first to treat extensively the opium trade from the point of production in India to the point of consumption in China and the first to give both Protestant and Catholic missionaries their due; it remains the most comprehensive account of the first Opium War through western eyes. In a new preface, Fay reflects on the relationship between the events described in the book and Hong Kong's more recent history.

Author : Nathan Allen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1850
Category : Commerce
ISBN : HARVARD:32044058235797

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An Essay on the Opium Trade by Nathan Allen Pdf

Author : Brian Inglis
Publisher : Coronet
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : China
ISBN : 0340234687

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The Opium War by Brian Inglis Pdf

Author : Julia Lovell
Publisher : MacMillan Hardback Omes
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : China
ISBN : 0330537857

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Ya Pian Zhan Zheng by Julia Lovell Pdf

"'On the outside, [the foreigners] seem intractable, but inside they are cowardly... Although there have been a few ups-and-downs, the situation as a whole is under control.' In October 1839, a few months after the Chinese Imperial Commissioner, Lin Zexu, dispatched these confident words to his emperor, a Cabinet meeting in Windsor voted to fight Britain's first Opium War (1839-42) with China. The conflict turned out to be rich in tragicomedy: in 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 myth of modern Chinese nationalism: the start of China's heroic struggle against a Western conspiracy to destroy the country with opium and gunboat diplomacy. Beginning with the dramas of the war itself, Julia Lovell explores its background, causes and consequences... The Opium War is both the story of modern China--starting from this first conflict with the West--and an analysis of the country's contemporary self-image. It 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 on both sides have bedevilled its relationship with the modern West."--book jacket.

Author : Mark Simner
Publisher : Fonthill Media
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-29
Category : History
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Lion and the Dragon by Mark Simner Pdf

During the middle of the 19th-Century, Britain and China would twice go to war over trade, and in particular the trade in opium. The Chinese people had progressively become addicted to the narcotic, a habit that British merchants were more than happy to feed from their opium-poppy fields in India. When the Qing dynasty rulers of China attempted to suppress this trade--due to the serious social and economic problems it caused--the British Government responded with gunboat diplomacy, and conflict soon ensued. The first conflict, known as the First Anglo-Chinese War or Opium War (1839-42), ended in British victory and the Treaty of Nanking. However, this treaty was heavily biased in favour of the British, and it would not be long before there was a renewal of hostilities, taking the form of what became known as the Second Anglo-Chinese War or Arrow War (1857-60). Again, the second conflict would end with an 'unequal treaty' that was heavily biased towards the victor. The Lion and the Dragon: Britain's Opium Wars with China, 1839-1860 examines the causes and ensuing military history of these tragic conflicts, as well as their bitter legacies.

Author : Algernon Sydney Thelwall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1839
Category : China
ISBN : OXFORD:590973434

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The Iniquities of the Opium Trade with China by Algernon Sydney Thelwall Pdf

Author : Timothy Brook,Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2000-09-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0520222369

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Opium Regimes by Timothy Brook,Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi Pdf

Opium Regimes draws on a range of research to show that the opium trade was not purely a British operation, but involved Chinese merchants and state agents, and Japanese imperial agents as well.

Author : Carl Trocki
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135118990

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Opium, Empire and the Global Political Economy by Carl Trocki Pdf

Drug epidemics are clearly not just a peculiar feature of modern life; the opium trade in the nineteenth century tells us a great deal about Asian herion traffic today. In an age when we are increasingly aware of large scale drug use, this book takes a long look at the history of our relationship with mind-altering substances. Engagingly written, with lay readers as much as specialists in mind, this book will be fascinating reading for historians, social scientists, as well as those involved in Asian studies, or economic history.