Imperial Twilight - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Imperial Twilight write by Stephen R. Platt. This book was released on 2018-05-15. Imperial Twilight available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. As China reclaims its position as a world power, Imperial Twilight looks back to tell the story of the country’s last age of ascendance and how it came to an end in the nineteenth-century Opium War. As one of the most potent turning points in the country’s modern history, the Opium War has since come to stand for everything that today’s China seeks to put behind it. In this dramatic, epic story, award-winning historian Stephen Platt sheds new light on the early attempts by Western traders and missionaries to “open” China even as China’s imperial rulers were struggling to manage their country’s decline and Confucian scholars grappled with how to use foreign trade to China’s advantage. The book paints an enduring portrait of an immensely profitable—and mostly peaceful—meeting of civilizations that was destined to be shattered by one of the most shockingly unjust wars in the annals of imperial history. Brimming with a fascinating cast of British, Chinese, and American characters, this riveting narrative of relations between China and the West has important implications for today’s uncertain and ever-changing political climate.
The Opium War
The Opium War - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Opium War write by Julia Lovell. This book was released on 2015-11-10. The Opium War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Our Opium Trade with China
Our Opium Trade with China - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Our Opium Trade with China write by Samuel S Mander. This book was released on 2012. Our Opium Trade with China available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Our Opium Trade with China
Our Opium Trade with China - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Our Opium Trade with China write by Samuel S. Mander. This book was released on 1877. Our Opium Trade with China available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Lion and the Dragon
The Lion and the Dragon - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Lion and the Dragon write by Mark Simner. This book was released on 2019-06-29. The Lion and the Dragon available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
