The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams, and the Making of Modern China
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About
In October 1839, Britain entered the first Opium War with China. Its brutality notwithstanding, the conflict was also threaded with tragicomedy: with Victorian hypocrisy, bureaucratic fumblings, military missteps, political opportunism and collaboration. Yet over the past hundred and seventy years, this strange tale of misunderstanding, incompetence and compromise has become the founding episode of modern Chinese nationalism.
Starting from this first conflict, The Opium War explores how China’s national myths mould its interactions with the outside world, how public memory is spun to serve the present, and how delusion and prejudice have bedevilled its relationship with the modern West.
Starting from this first conflict, The Opium War explores how China’s national myths mould its interactions with the outside world, how public memory is spun to serve the present, and how delusion and prejudice have bedevilled its relationship with the modern West.
- ISBN:
- 9781468311730
- Publication Date:
- 2015-01-01
- Publisher:
- Overlook Press
- Language:
- English
- Page Count:
- 456
- Size:
- 8.97" l x 6.0" w x 1.48" h
Info
- History and Geography
Category
- Asia
- World War I and II
Subject