TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lovell,Julia
TI  - The Opium War: drugs, dreams and the making of China 
SN  - 9780330457484 (pbk.) :
PY  - 2012///
CY  - London
PB  - Picador
KW  - China
KW  - Foreign relations
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - History
KW  - Opium War, 1840-1842
KW  - Victoria, 1837-1901
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -