Ya pian zhan zheng = The Opium War : drugs, dreams and the making of China

Author/Creator:

Lovell, Julia, 1975-

Publication/Creation:

[London] : Picador, 2011

Resource Type:

Book

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Additional/Related Title Information

Full Title:

Ya pian zhan zheng = The Opium War : drugs, dreams and the making of China / Julia Lovell

Variant Titles:

Opium War

Subjects/Genre

Subjects:

China--History--Opium War, 1840-1842
Great Britain--History--Victoria, 1837-1901

Description/Summary

Table of Contents:

Opium and China -- Daoguang's decision -- Canton spring -- Opium and lime -- The first shots -- "An explanatory declaration" -- Sweet-talk and sea-slug -- Qishan's downfall -- The siege of Canton -- The unEnglished Englishman -- Xiamen and Zhoushan -- A winter in Suzhou -- The fight for Qing China -- The treaty of Nanjing -- Peace and war -- The yellow peril -- The national disease -- Communist conspiracies -- Conclusion.

Language:

English

Physical Type/Description:

xxii, 458, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm

General Note:

Title in Chinese characters.

Additional Identifiers

Catalog ID (MMSID):

990032611960302486

ISBN:

0330457470
0330537857
9780330457477
9780330537858

OCLC Number:

730402956

Barcode:

010002658266