Our Opium Trade with China, and England's injustice towards the Chinese
Title | Our Opium Trade with China, and England's injustice towards the Chinese PDF eBook |
Author | W. E. Ormerod |
Publisher | |
Pages | 28 |
Release | 1876 |
Genre | Opium trade |
ISBN |
Imperial Twilight
Title | Imperial Twilight PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen R. Platt |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 609 |
Release | 2018-05-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0307961745 |
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 Indo-British Opium Trade and Its Effect
Title | The Indo-British Opium Trade and Its Effect PDF eBook |
Author | Theodor Christlieb |
Publisher | |
Pages | 126 |
Release | 1879 |
Genre | Narcotics |
ISBN |
The Friend of China
Title | The Friend of China PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 494 |
Release | 1875 |
Genre | China |
ISBN |
The Opium Question. A Review of the Opium Policy of Great Britain, and Its Results to India and China
Title | The Opium Question. A Review of the Opium Policy of Great Britain, and Its Results to India and China PDF eBook |
Author | Arthur Evans Moule |
Publisher | BoD – Books on Demand |
Pages | 102 |
Release | 2024-08-22 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 3385567971 |
The Truth about Opium Smoking
Title | The Truth about Opium Smoking PDF eBook |
Author | Benjamin Broomhall |
Publisher | |
Pages | 146 |
Release | 1882 |
Genre | China |
ISBN |
China and the International System, 1840-1949
Title | China and the International System, 1840-1949 PDF eBook |
Author | David Scott |
Publisher | State University of New York Press |
Pages | 375 |
Release | 2008-11-07 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0791477428 |
Examines the images, hopes, and fears that were evoked during China’s century-long subservience to external powers.