The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams and the Making of China.
The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams and the Making of China
by Julia Lovell
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Julia Lovell The opium war drugs dreams and the making References Bibliographical reference Xavier Paulès « Julia Lovell The opium war drugs dreams and the making of China » China Perspectives 20121 2012 7576 The Opium War Drugs Dreams and the Making of China As a China specialist I am reasonably familiar with the Opium War and have read several books covering it Lovells book is by far the most comprehensive I have encountered in that it includes much material from Chinese archives The Opium War Drugs Dreams and the Making of China By The Opium War Drugs Dreams and the Making of China By Julia Lovell New York Overlook Press 2014 xxiv 456 pp 3500 cloth By Julia Lovell New York Overlook Press 2014 xxiv 456 pp 3500 cloth The Opium War Drugs Dreams and the Making of China 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 The Opium War Drugs Dreams and the Making of Modern The Opium War Drugs Dreams and the Making of Modern China 2011 February 13 2016 · by srogouski · in History and Politics · 22 Comments If you came of age in the 1970s or the 1980s you grew up hearing about “the war on drugs” The Opium War Drugs Dreams and the Making of Modern Fascinating account of the first Opium War and its consequences in China through to the present day It overturns much of the self serving PRC historiography that saw the country’s defeat as the result of a cunning imperialist conspiracy Bernard Porter reviews ‘The Opium War’ by Julia Lovell The Opium War Drugs Dreams and the Making of China by Julia Lovell Picador 458 pp £2500 September 2011 ISBN 978 0 330 45747 7 In China the Opium War is taken to mark the beginning of the country’s modern history seen as one of continuous national humiliation under the heel of Western imperialism bravely but hopelessly resisted by the peasantry until Chairman Mao came along The Opium War Drugs Dreams and the Making of Modern Start reading The Opium War Drugs Dreams and the Making of Modern China on your Kindle in under a minute Dont have a Kindle Get your Kindle here or download a FREE Kindle Reading App The Opium War Drugs Dreams and the Making of Modern In October 1839 a Windsor cabinet meeting votes to begin the first Opium War against China Bureaucratic fumbling military missteps and a healthy dose of political opportunism and collaboration followed The Opium War Lost in Compensation l HISTORY OF CHINA The Opium War started as a dispute over trading rights between China and Great Britain Regular trade between Europe and the Chinese had been ongoing for centuries
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