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Author : Duncan MacPherson
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Total Pages : 430 pages
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Author : John M. Carroll
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538136309
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)
Download or read book Canton Days written by John M. Carroll and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-02-12 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Canton Days offers the first comprehensive history of the British community in China from the mid-1700s to the end of the Opium War in 1842. During that period, Britons and other Westerners in China were restricted to trading and living in a tiny section of the city of Canton and the small Portuguese territory of Macao. At Canton, trade between China and the West was conducted through a group of Chinese merchant houses specially licensed by the Qing government. British encounters with China in this period have been seen mainly as a prelude to war, and Britons in China usually have been characterized as single-minded traders determined to open the Middle Kingdom by any means or missionaries bent on converting the Chinese “heathen” to Christianity. John M. Carroll challenges common assumptions about the British presence in China as he traces the lives and times of the expatriates at the heart of this vital center of trade and exchange. The author draws on a rich trove of archival sources to bring Canton and its leading figures to life, concluding with the deaths of three Britons, each revealing British concerns and anxieties about being in China. Written in a clear and lively style, his book will appeal to all readers interested in British imperial history, early modern Chinese history, and the worlds of expatriate and sojourning communities.
Author : Mark Simner
Publisher : Fonthill Media
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Total Pages : 459 pages
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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 459 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.
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 : Robert Chambers
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Total Pages : 880 pages
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Download or read book Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature written by Robert Chambers and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 880 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Author : Joseph Clarke (of Hull.)
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Total Pages : 598 pages
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Author : John Mozley STARK
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Total Pages : 602 pages
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Author : Shanghai Literary and Scientific Society, afterwards North China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society (SHANGHAI). Library
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Total Pages : 106 pages
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Author : Henri Cordier
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Total Pages : 108 pages
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Author : Sir Arthur Augustus Thurlow Cunynghame
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Total Pages : 374 pages
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Download or read book An Aide-de-camp's Recollections of Service in China written by Sir Arthur Augustus Thurlow Cunynghame and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Chambers
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Total Pages : 746 pages
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Author : George Samuel Parsons
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Total Pages : 354 pages
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Author : Robert Chambers
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Total Pages : 764 pages
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Total Pages : 846 pages
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