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Opium Wars (Paperback)
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Opium Wars (Paperback)
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Loot Price R468
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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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