01449pam a2200205 4500 6311 9780330457484 (pbk.) : Lovell, Julia, 1975- The Opium War : drugs, dreams and the making of China / Julia Lovell. London : Picador, 2012. xxiv, 456 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps, ports. (some col.) ; 20 cm. Originally published: London: Picador, 2011. Includes bibliographical references and index. Opium and China -- Daoguang's decision -- Canton spring -- Opium and lime -- The first shots -- "An explanatory declaration" -- Sweet-talk and sea-slug -- Qishan's downfall -- The siege of Canton -- The unEnglished Englishman -- Xiamen and Zhoushan -- A winter in Suzhou -- The fight for Qing China -- The Treaty of Nanjing -- Peace and war -- The Yellow Peril -- The national disease -- Communist conspiracies -- Conclusion -- Principal characters -- Timeline. Details the 1839 Opium War and the red tape, incompetence, and political cronyism that surrounded China's first conflict with the West and how these events fueled the foundation for modern Chinese nationalism. China Foreign relations Great Britain. China History Opium War, 1840-1842. Great Britain Foreign relations China. Great Britain History Victoria, 1837-1901. 5325 5325 0 0 ddc 0 0 MAIN RTCLIB RTCLIB MAIN 2018-11-27 10051 1 2 951 LOV 30010295 2024-03-14 00:00:00 2023-10-12 2018-11-27 MAIN