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Book Synopsis Commissioner Lin and the Opium War by : Hsin-pao Chang
Download or read book Commissioner Lin and the Opium War written by Hsin-pao Chang and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 1970-01 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Canton trade for almost a century had been the sole regulated channel between China and the Western world; as such, it had become the focus of many conflicts. Mr. Chang examines the development of this trading system and the British trade in China--a trade so valuable to the British that it was worth a war. He shows us the motives and tactics behind events in the crucial days of 1839, through Chinese and English eye-witness accounts, newspaper reports, official correspondence, private papers, British and American company records, and many newly available documents. He throws light on factors contributing to the conflict, such as the controversy over extra-territoriality, Britain's struggle for diplomatic equality in China, life in the foreign community confined at Canton, and the surrender and destruction of some 20,000 chests of British opium.Mr. Chang is especially interested in assessing the role of Imperial Commissioner Lin Tse-hsu, giving a clear, fresh look into the character, motives, and actions of this brilliant man who was sent by the emperor to stamp out the opium trade, and then callously made a scapegoat for all of China's woes with Britain.
Book Synopsis Commissioner Lin and the Opium War by : Sai-chun Lam
Download or read book Commissioner Lin and the Opium War written by Sai-chun Lam and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Commissioner Lin and the Opium War by : Lewis Henry Morgan
Download or read book Commissioner Lin and the Opium War written by Lewis Henry Morgan and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Commissioner Lin and the Opium War by : Xinbao Zhang
Download or read book Commissioner Lin and the Opium War written by Xinbao Zhang and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Opium War written by Julia Lovell and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2015-11-10 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This “crisp and readable account” of the nineteenth century British campaign sheds light on modern Chinese identity through “a heartbreaking story of war” (The Wall Street Journal). In October 1839, a Windsor cabinet meeting voted to begin the first Opium War against China. Bureaucratic fumbling, military missteps, and a healthy dose of political opportunism and collaboration followed. Rich in tragicomedy, The Opium War explores the disastrous British foreign-relations move that became a founding myth of modern Chinese nationalism, and depicts China’s heroic struggle against Western conspiracy. Julia Lovell examines the causes and consequences of the Opium War, interweaving tales of the opium pushers and dissidents. More importantly, she analyses how the Opium Wars shaped China’s self-image and created an enduring model for its interactions with the West, plagued by delusion and prejudice.
Book Synopsis The Troublesome Legacy of Commissioner Lin by : Joyce A. Madancy
Download or read book The Troublesome Legacy of Commissioner Lin written by Joyce A. Madancy and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-03-23 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In 1908, a very public crusade against opium was in full swing throughout China, and the provincial capital and treaty port of Fuzhou was a central stage for the campaign. This, the most successful attempt undertaken by the Chinese state before 1949 to eliminate opium, came at a time when, according to many historians, China’s central state was virtually powerless. This volume attempts to reconcile that apparent contradiction.The remarkable, albeit temporary, success of the anti-opium campaign between 1906 and 1920 is as yet largely unexplained. How these results were achieved, how that progress was squandered, and why China’s opium problem proved so tenacious are the questions that inspired this volume. The attack on this social problem was led by China’s central and provincial authorities, aided by reformist elites, and seemingly supported by most Chinese. The anti-opium movement relied on the control and oversight provided by a multilayered state bureaucracy, the activism and support of unofficial elite-led reform groups, the broad nationalistic and humanitarian appeal of the campaign, and the cooperation of the British government. The extent to which the Chinese state was able to control the pace and direction of the anti-opium campaign and the evolving nature of the political space in which elite reformers publicized and enforced that campaign are the guiding themes of this analysis."
Book Synopsis The Opium War Through Chinese Eyes by : The Arthur Waley Estate
Download or read book The Opium War Through Chinese Eyes written by The Arthur Waley Estate and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Chinese Account of the Opium War by : Parker
Download or read book Chinese Account of the Opium War written by Parker and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Opium Wars by : W Travis Hanes III, Ph.D.
Download or read book The Opium Wars written by W Travis Hanes III, Ph.D. and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2004-02-01 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating look at the other side of the Opium Wars In this tragic and powerful story, the two Opium Wars of 1839–1842 and 1856–1860 between Britain and China are recounted for the first time through the eyes of the Chinese as well as the Imperial West. Opium entered China during the Middle Ages when Arab traders brought it into China for medicinal purposes. As it took hold as a recreational drug, opium wrought havoc on Chinese society. By the early nineteenth century, 90 percent of the Emperor's court and the majority of the army were opium addicts. Britain was also a nation addicted—to tea, grown in China, and paid for with profits made from the opium trade. When China tried to ban the use of the drug and bar its Western smugglers from it gates, England decided to fight to keep open China's ports for its importation. England, the superpower of its time, managed to do so in two wars, resulting in a drug-induced devastation of the Chinese people that would last 150 years. In this page-turning, dramatic and colorful history, The Opium Wars responds to past, biased Western accounts by representing the neglected Chinese version of the story and showing how the wars stand as one of the monumental clashes between the cultures of East and West. "A fine popular account."—Publishers Weekly "Their account of the causes, military campaigns and tragic effects of these wars is absorbing, frequently macabre and deeply unsettling."—Booklist
Book Synopsis Chinese Account of the Opium War by : Edward Harper Parker
Download or read book Chinese Account of the Opium War written by Edward Harper Parker and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Divine Answer of Commissioner Lin by : Robert Hovianseian
Download or read book The Divine Answer of Commissioner Lin written by Robert Hovianseian and published by Publishamerica Incorporated. This book was released on 2007-06 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is an account of the First Opium War as told by its protagonist, Commission Lin. Lin receives his appointment from Chinaas Emperor. He is charged with eradicating opium from China forever. Commissioner Lin encounters four forms of social death when he ends the opium trade: decadence, revolution, anarchy, and war. Widespread opium addiction produces weakness and decay. Lin rejuvenates society by restoring Confucian discipline to it. The economic hegemony of the opium traders is overthrown after a brief revolution. Lin confiscates opium supplies and introduces the death penalty for opium offenses, although unemployment and illness combine to create widespread anarchy. Lin is compelled to re-impose order over this wave of crime and chaos. China and Great Britain then wage war over the future of China and the opium trade. It is here that The Opium War through Chinese Eyes is finally brought to life.
Book Synopsis Commissoner Lin and the Opium War by : Hsin-Pao Chang
Download or read book Commissoner Lin and the Opium War written by Hsin-Pao Chang and published by . This book was released on 1964-01-01 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Inner Opium War by : James M. Polachek
Download or read book The Inner Opium War written by James M. Polachek and published by Harvard Univ Asia Center. This book was released on 1992 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why did defeat in the Opium War not lead Ch'ing China to a more realistic appreciation of Western might and Chinese weakness? James Polachek's revisionist analysis exposes the behind-the-scenes political struggles that not only shaped foreign-policy decisions in the 1830s and 1840s but have continued to affect the history of Chinese nationalism in modern times. Polachek looks closely at the networks of literati and officials, self-consciously reminiscent of the late Ming era that sought and gained the ear of the emperor. Challenging the conventional view that Lin Tse-hsu and his supporters were selfless patriots who acted in China's best interests, Polachek agrues that, for reasons having more to do with their own domestic political agenda, these men advocated a futile policy of militant resistance to the West. Linking political intrigue, scholarly debates, and foreign affairs, local notables in Canton and literati lobbyists in Perking this book sets the Opium War for the first times in its "inner," domestic political context.
Book Synopsis From Frontier Policy to Foreign Policy by : Matthew Mosca
Download or read book From Frontier Policy to Foreign Policy written by Matthew Mosca and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-20 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between the mid-eighteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries, Qing rulers, officials, and scholars fused diverse, fragmented perceptions of foreign territory into one integrated worldview. In the same period, a single "foreign" policy emerged as an alternative to the many localized "frontier" policies hitherto pursued on the coast, in Xinjiang, and in Tibet. By unraveling Chinese, Manchu, and British sources to reveal the information networks used by the Qing empire to gather intelligence about its emerging rival, British India, this book explores China's altered understanding of its place in a global context. Far from being hobbled by a Sinocentric worldview, Qing China's officials and scholars paid close attention to foreign affairs. To meet the growing British threat, they adapted institutional practices and geopolitical assumptions to coordinate a response across their maritime and inland borderlands. In time, the new and more active response to Western imperialism built on this foundation reshaped not only China's diplomacy but also the internal relationship between Beijing and its frontiers.
Book Synopsis The Qing Empire and the Opium War by : Haijian Mao
Download or read book The Qing Empire and the Opium War written by Haijian Mao and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-10-18 with total page 571 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive study of the Opium War that presents a revisionist reading of the conflict and its main Chinese protagonists.
Book Synopsis The Opium War [1839-1842] and the Unequal Treaties [1842-1844]. by : Roger Paul Packman
Download or read book The Opium War [1839-1842] and the Unequal Treaties [1842-1844]. written by Roger Paul Packman and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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