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The Opium War

Author : Julia Lovell
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781447204107

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‘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

Imperial Twilight

Author : Stephen R. Platt
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307961747

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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.

The Opium Wars

Author : W. Travis Hanes III,Frank Sanello
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2004-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781402252051

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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

The Opium War, 1840-1842

Author : Peter Ward Fay
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2000-11-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807861363

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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.

Ya Pian Zhan Zheng

Author : Julia Lovell
Publisher : MacMillan Hardback Omes
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : China
ISBN : 0330537857

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"'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.

The Opium War Through Chinese Eyes

Author : The Arthur Waley Estate,Arthur Waley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781136576652

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The Opium War Through Chinese Eyes by The Arthur Waley Estate,Arthur Waley Pdf

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.

The Opium War

Author : Brian Inglis
Publisher : Coronet
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : China
ISBN : 0340234687

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The Qing Empire and the Opium War

Author : Haijian Mao
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 571 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107069879

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The Qing Empire and the Opium War by Haijian Mao Pdf

A comprehensive study of the Opium War that presents a revisionist reading of the conflict and its main Chinese protagonists.

The Opium Wars

Author : Captivating History
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1647489083

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The Lion and the Dragon

Author : Mark Simner
Publisher : Fonthill Media
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-29
Category : History
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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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.

Merchants of War and Peace

Author : Song-Chuan Chen
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789888390564

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The Opium Wars

Author : Hourly History
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1790415810

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Opium Wars Violent confrontation between armed groups over the supply of illegal narcotics is something we commonly associate with criminal gangs in modern cities, but in the mid-nineteenth century Great Britain went to war with Imperial China in order to continue to supply Chinese addicts with opium. The two wars which followed have become known as the Opium Wars, and they led to the utter defeat of China, the establishment of a British colony in Hong Kong, and the continuation of a narcotics trade that was worth millions of pounds each year to the British.The Opium Wars exposed the weaknesses of the Chinese Qing dynasty in terms of its military abilities and internal corruption. They also exposed divisions in Victorian Britain where people were beginning to question the morality of going to war to support an illegal narcotics trade which caused misery and death for millions of Chinese. In the end, the British were able to overcome their reservations and prosecuted these two wars with great success. British casualties were small and the gains enormous--the British opium trade to China would continue for more than fifty years after the end of the Second Opium War. Inside you will read about... ✓ The Joy Plant ✓ Outbreak of the First Opium War ✓ British Superiority and the Devil Ship ✓ The Treaty of Nanking: First of the Unequal Treaties ✓ The Inevitable Second Opium War ✓ The Fall of Beijing And much more! For the Chinese Qing dynasty, the Opium Wars marked the beginning of the end. Imperial China had endured for two thousand years, but within fifty years of the humiliations of the Opium Wars, a revolution overthrew the imperial court and turned China into a republic. Although they are little remembered today, the Opium Wars changed the face not just of China but also of the whole of Asia. This is the story of those wars.

From a Darkened Room

Author : Arthur Crew Inman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Eccentrics and eccentricities
ISBN : IND:30000057567079

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History of the Opium Problem

Author : Hans Derks
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 851 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004221581

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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.

The Chinese Opium Wars

Author : Jack Beeching
Publisher : Mariner Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : China
ISBN : 0156170949

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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.