Author: Algernon Sydney ThelwallPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
The Iniquities of the Opium Trade with China
Author: Algernon Sydney ThelwallPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
The Lion and the Dragon
Author: Mark SimnerPublisher: Fonthill Media
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 459
Book Description
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.
The Opium War Through Chinese Eyes
Author: The Arthur Waley EstatePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113657672X
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
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.
Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country
Author: Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country
Author: James Anthony FroudePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 796
Book Description
Creating the Opium War
Author: Hao GaoPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 152613344X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
Creating the Opium War examines British imperial attitudes towards China during their early encounters from the Macartney embassy to the outbreak of the Opium War – a deeply consequential event which arguably reshaped relations between China and the West in the next century. It makes the first attempt to bring together the political history of Sino-western relations and the cultural studies of British representations of China, as a new way of explaining the origins of the conflict. The book focuses on a crucial period (1792–1840), which scholars such as Kitson and Markley have recently compared in importance to that of American and French Revolutions. By examining a wealth of primary materials, some in more detail than ever before, this study reveals how the idea of war against China was created out of changing British perceptions of the country.
The Bookseller
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1760
Book Description
Vols. for 1871-76, 1913-14 include an extra number, The Christmas bookseller, separately paged and not included in the consecutive numbering of the regular series.
The Middle Kingdom
Author: Samuel Wells WilliamsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 808
Book Description
Hansard's Parliamentary Debates
Author: Great Britain. ParliamentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 736
Book Description
Opium’s Orphans
Author: P. E. CaquetPublisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1789145597
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
Upending all we know about the war on drugs, a history of the anti-narcotics movement’s origins, evolution, and questionable effectiveness. Opium’s Orphans is the first full history of drug prohibition and the “war on drugs.” A no-holds-barred but balanced account, it shows that drug suppression was born of historical accident, not rational design. The war on drugs did not originate in Europe or the United States, and even less with President Nixon, but in China. Two Opium Wars followed by Western attempts to atone for them gave birth to an anti-narcotics order that has come to span the globe. But has the war on drugs succeeded? As opioid deaths and cartel violence run rampant, contestation becomes more vocal, and marijuana is slated for legalization, Opium's Orphans proposes that it is time to go back to the drawing board.