The Opium War 1840 1842

Author : Peter Ward Fay
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 52,7 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 : Robin McKown
Publisher : Franklin Watts
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1974-01-01
Category : China
ISBN : 0531027287

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The Opium War in China: 1840-1842 by Robin McKown Pdf

An account of the war started by the British when, in 1840, the Chinese tried to stop the sale of opium.

Author : Peter Ward Fay
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:861476832

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The Opium War 1840-1842 by Peter Ward Fay Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:974363171

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The Opium War 1840-1842 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Duncan McPherson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1781583609

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The First Opium War - The Chinese Expedition 1840-1842 - The Illustrated Edition by Duncan McPherson Pdf

The first Anglo-Chinese War of 1839-1842 was fought essentially over trade restrictions between the British Empire and the Qing Dynasty. European traders were only permitted to sell though a cartel of Chinese merchants known as the Thirteen Hongs, and were not allowed to travel, live or trade in any other part of China apart from the Thirteen Factories in Canton. Due to the ever-growing demands of the home market for tea, and China's insistence on payment in silver, a trade imbalance in China's favour developed, and so the British, via the East India Company, began to trade in opium. Initially the Chinese authorities tolerated this, but in 1839, the new governor of Canton seized all the opium, banned its sale under threat of death, and closed the channel to Canton, effectively holding the British traders hostage. The resulting retaliation from the British was somewhat delayed, but in April 1840 the Chinese Expedition, a force of 3000 soldiers and a small naval force arrived in Singapore. After decisively defeating the Chinese in the summer 1842, the war finally ended with the signing of the Treaty of Nanking and the ceding of Hong Kong to the British Crown. Fully illustrated throughout with contemporary paintings, engravings and maps, this authoritative eye-witness account of the First Opium War was written by Duncan McPherson, a surgeon with the 37th Madras Native Infantry. Highly readable, McPherson's vivid descriptions of China and its people, and his detailed accounts of the battles give a unique perspective to the conflict. Also included is an in-depth appendix featuring the official battle reports, general orders, circulars, notifications and returns of the dead and wounded.

Author : Stephen R. Platt
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 43,7 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 : Jack Beeching
Publisher : Mariner Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 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 : Hans Derks
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 851 pages
File Size : 48,5 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 : Song-Chuan Chen
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789888390564

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Merchants of War and Peace by Song-Chuan Chen Pdf

Author : Julia Lovell
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 47,5 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 : Mark Simner
Publisher : Fonthill Media
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 55,5 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 : Edward Belcher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1843
Category : China
ISBN : BSB:BSB10466313

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Narrative of a Voyage Round the World by Edward Belcher Pdf

Author : Haijian Mao
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 571 pages
File Size : 49,5 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.

Author : Robert Nield
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789888139286

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China’s Foreign Places by Robert Nield Pdf

During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the imperial powers—principally Britain, the United States, Russia, France, Germany and Japan—signed treaties with China to secure trading, residence and other rights in cities on the coast, along important rivers, and in remote places further inland. The largest of them—the great treaty ports of Shanghai and Tientsin—became modern cities of international importance, centres of cultural exchange and safe havens for Chinese who sought to subvert the Qing government. They are also lasting symbols of the uninvited and often violent incursions by foreign powers during China’s century of weakness. The extraterritorial privileges that underpinned the treaty ports were abolished in 1943—a time when much of the treaty port world was under Japanese occupation. China’s Foreign Places provides a historical account of the hundred or more major foreign settlements that appeared in China during the period 1840 to 1943. Most of the entries are about treaty ports, large and small, but the book also includes colonies, leased territories, resorts and illicit centres of trade. Information has been drawn from a wide range of sources and entries are arranged alphabetically with extensive illustrations and maps. China’s Foreign Places is both a unique work of reference, essential for scholars of this period and travellers to modern China. It is also a fascinating account of the people, institutions and businesses that inhabited China’s treaty port world.

Author : Chung Tan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015013348894

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China and the Brave New World by Chung Tan Pdf