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The Opium War, 1840-1842 - Barbarians in the Celestial Empire in the Early Part of the Nineteenth Century and the War by which They Forced Her Gates Ajar (Paperback, New edition)
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The Opium War, 1840-1842 - Barbarians in the Celestial Empire in the Early Part of the Nineteenth Century and the War by which They Forced Her Gates Ajar (Paperback, New edition)
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This work tells the story of the war between England and China that
delivered Hong Kong to the English, forced the imperial Chinese
government to add four ports to Canton as places in which
foreigners could live and trade, and rendered irreversible the
process that for almost a century thereafter distinguished Western
relations with this quarter of the globe - the process that is
loosely termed the ""opening of China"". Originally published by
UNC Press in 1975, Peter Ward Fay's study was the first to treat
extensively the opium trade from the point of production in India
to point of consumption in China and the first to give both
Protestant and Catholic missionaries their due; it remains the most
comprehensive account of the first Opium War through western eyes.
In a new preface, Fay reflects on the relationship between the
events described in the book and Hong Kong's more recent history.
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