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Author : D. Bonner-Smith
Publisher : [London] : Printed for the Navy Records Society
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Second China War, 1856-1860 written by D. Bonner-Smith and published by [London] : Printed for the Navy Records Society. This book was released on 1954 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J. Y. Wong
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521526197
Total Pages : 588 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)
Download or read book Deadly Dreams written by J. Y. Wong and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-11-07 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wong argues that the opium trade played a large causative role in the Anglo-Chinese Arrow War.
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Author : David Bonner SMITH (and LUMBY (Esmond Walter Rawson))
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 22 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (54 download)
Download or read book The Second China War, 1856-1860. Edited by D. Bonner-Smith and E. W. R. Lumby. [With maps.] written by David Bonner SMITH (and LUMBY (Esmond Walter Rawson)) and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mark Simner
Publisher : Fonthill Media
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book The Lion and the Dragon written by Mark Simner and published by Fonthill Media. This book was released on 2019-06-29 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the middle of the 19th-Century, Britain and China would twice go to war over trade, and in particular the trade in opium. The Chinese people had progressively become addicted to the narcotic, a habit that British merchants were more than happy to feed from their opium-poppy fields in India. When the Qing dynasty rulers of China attempted to suppress this trade--due to the serious social and economic problems it caused--the British Government responded with gunboat diplomacy, and conflict soon ensued. The first conflict, known as the First Anglo-Chinese War or Opium War (1839-42), ended in British victory and the Treaty of Nanking. However, this treaty was heavily biased in favour of the British, and it would not be long before there was a renewal of hostilities, taking the form of what became known as the Second Anglo-Chinese War or Arrow War (1857-60). Again, the second conflict would end with an 'unequal treaty' that was heavily biased towards the victor. The Lion and the Dragon: Britain's Opium Wars with China, 1839-1860 examines the causes and ensuing military history of these tragic conflicts, as well as their bitter legacies.
Download or read book The Second China War, 1856-1860. Ed. by D. Bonner-Smith and E.W.R. Lumby written by and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Julia Lovell
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1468313231
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (683 download)
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.
Author : W Travis Hanes III, Ph.D.
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1402252056
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (22 download)
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
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (459 download)
Download or read book The Second China War 1856-1860. Edited by D. Bonner-Smith and E. W. R. Lumby written by and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stephan Haggard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108479871
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)
Download or read book East Asia in the World written by Stephan Haggard and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-29 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This accessible collection examines twelve historic events in the international relations of East Asia.
Author : Captivating History
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781647489083
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (89 download)
Download or read book The Opium Wars written by Captivating History and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-06 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stephen R. Platt
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307961745
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (79 download)
Download or read book Imperial Twilight written by Stephen R. Platt and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : D. Bonner-Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (279 download)
Download or read book The Second China War, 1858-1860 written by D. Bonner-Smith and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edward Belcher
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Narrative of a Voyage Round the World written by Edward Belcher and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David G. Atwill
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429560346
Total Pages : 582 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (295 download)
Download or read book Sources in Chinese History written by David G. Atwill and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-03 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sources in Chinese History, now in its second edition, has been updated to include re-translations of over a third of the documents. It also incorporates nearly 40 new sources that work to familiarize readers with the key events, personages, and themes of modern China. Organized thematically, the volume examines China’s complex history from the rise of the Qing dynasty in the mid-seventeenth century through the formation of the People’s Republic of China up to the present. Each chapter begins with an annotated visual source followed by a chapter introduction and analysis of textual sources, allowing students to explore different types of sources and topics. Sources in Chinese History contextualizes the issues, trends, and challenges of each particular period. Special attention has been made to incorporate a variety of viewpoints which challenge standard accounts. Non-traditional documents, such as movie dialogues, are also included which aim to encourage students to reconsider historical events and trends in Chinese history. This volume includes a variety of sources, such as maps, posters, film scripts, memorials, and political cartoons and advertisements, that make this book the perfect introductory aid for students of Chinese history, politics, and culture, as well as Chinese studies after 1600.
Author : Jack Beeching
Publisher : Mariner Books
ISBN 13 : 9780156170949
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (79 download)
Download or read book The Chinese Opium Wars written by Jack Beeching and published by Mariner Books. This book was released on 1977 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An enlightening account of a notorious period in nineteenth-century imperialism, when an effort by the Chinese government to stamp out the country's profitable opium trade resulted in a series of conflicts known as the Opium Wars. Index; illustrations and map.
Author : Matsuda Wataru
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136821090
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (368 download)
Download or read book Japan and China written by Matsuda Wataru and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume ties together the histories of Japan and China for the modern period prior to the 20th century. The chapters look at Chinese and Japanese works which were written in response to events in the other country. None of these works has received any sustained attention in the west. As a result we get a view of how Chinese and Japanese saw each other at a time when there were few personal contacts allowed. Many of these texts were built on fanciful embellishments of stories that migrated from one land to the other. But the unique qualities of the Sino-Japanese cultural bond seem to have conditioned the interaction so that these texts all reveal a fascinatingly well-defined area.
Author : David Scott
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791477428
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)
Download or read book China and the International System, 1840-1949 written by David Scott and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2008-11-07 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the images, hopes, and fears that were evoked during China’s century-long subservience to external powers.
