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Item Details
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DEADLY DREAMS
OPIUM AND THE ARROW WAR (1856-1860) IN CHINA |
| By: |
J. Y. Wong, Patrick Hannan, Denis Twitchett |
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Hardback |
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£125.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0521552559 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780521552554 |
| Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
28 June, 1998 |
| Series: |
Cambridge Studies in Chinese History, Literature & Institutions |
| Pages: |
576 |
| Description: |
Wong argues that the opium trade played a large causative role in the Anglo-Chinese Arrow War. |
| Synopsis: |
The Arrow War (1856-60) involved all the world's major powers, and could almost be called a world war because of the global economic and diplomatic issues driving it. For twenty-five years Dr John Wong has been trying to discover the true origins of the war. What began as a study of an alleged insult to the British flag supposedly flying over the boat Arrow led to an analysis of complex Chinese and British diplomacy; of the even more complex Chinese tea and silk exports; of British India's jealously guarded economic strategies and opium monopoly; of cotton supplied to the Lancashire mills by the Americans, who thereby made up their trade deficit with China occasioned by their heavy purchases of tea; of intricate Westminster politics and British global trade; of French pride and cultural priorities; of Russian intrigues and territorial designs; and of America's apparent aloofness and real ambitions. |
| Illustrations: |
19 b/w illus. 59 tables |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Cambridge University Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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