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1. fivebooks.com › best-books › opium-war-julia-lovellThe best books on The Opium War - Five Books

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   by Julia Lovell. Read. 1 Narcotic Culture by Frank Dikotter, Lars Laamann and Zhou Xun. 2 Opium, Empire and the Global Political Economy by Carl Trocki. 3 The Opium War by Peter Ward Fay. 4 The Inner Opium War by James Polachek. 5 Britain’s Gulag by Caroline Elkins.

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2. www.amazon.com › Opium-War-Dreams-Making-Modern › dpThe Opium War: Drugs, Dreams, and the Making of Modern China

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   Nov 10, 2015 · This is a well-researched book. Before reading this book, I never had a straightforward account of the Opium War — my knowledge of it was sketchy at best. This book provides a good overview of the Opium War, including its causes, the key military engagements, and the diplomatic negotiations that led to the Treaty of Nanjing.

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   • Author: Julia Lovell

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4. www.amazon.com › Smoke-Ashes-Opiums-HiddenSmoke and Ashes: Opium's Hidden Histories: Ghosh, Amitav ...

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   Feb 13, 2024 · Smoke and Ashes is at once a travelogue, a memoir, and an essay in history, drawing on decades of archival research. In it, Ghosh traces the transformative effect the opium trade had on Britain, India, and China, as well as the world at large. The trade was engineered by the British Empire, which exported Indian opium to sell to China to ...

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5. www.nytimes.com › 2024/02/13 › booksBook Review: ‘Smoke and Ashes,’ by Amitav Ghosh - The New ...

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   Feb 13, 2024 · Ghosh’s tentacular history also embraces opium’s entanglement with furniture, architecture, gardens and its role in modern wars. His forensic analysis of opium-factory paintings is ...

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6. www.goodreads.com › shelf › showOpium War Books - Goodreads

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   The Opium War, 1840-1842: Barbarians in the Celestial Empire in the Early Part of the Nineteenth Century and the War by Which They Forced Her Gates (Paperback) by. Peter Ward Fay. (shelved 2 times as opium-war) avg rating 3.62 — 84 ratings — published 1975. Want to Read.

7. www.nytimes.com › 2018/07/02 › booksThe Opium War and the Humiliation of China - The New York Times

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   Jul 2, 2018 · IMPERIAL TWILIGHT The Opium War and the End of China’s Last Golden Age By Stephen R. Platt Illustrated. 556 pp. Alfred A. Knopf. $35. A century before its finest hour, the British Empire went ...

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   Why should you read the Opium War?

   • In China, the Opium War gradually came to be seen as the beginning of a century of humiliations at Western hands. As the West’s entanglement with China has deepened since the 1990s, so too has fascination with the Opium War, and every China-watcher will want to read Stephen R. Platt ’s fascinating and beautifully constructed new book.

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   What is the Opium War about?

   • 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.

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   What is the legacy of the Opium War?

   • This collision with Great Britain violently brought China into a modern, Eurocentric world system, and in a way we’re still dealing with the consequences of this today. One of those consequences, which you nuance especially well in your new book The Opium War, is the legacy of what’s called “the century of humiliation”.

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   Is the Opium War a 'century of humiliation'?

   • One of those consequences, which you nuance especially well in your new book The Opium War, is the legacy of what’s called “the century of humiliation”. In China today, from a young age people are taught to view the Opium War as the tragic inauguration of modern Chinese history.

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   Is the Opium War still useful?

   • A more recent example of how the Opium War is still useful as a historical narrative in contemporary political discourse came on the 90th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party. One of the first events that Hu Jintao mentioned in his keynote speech about the history of the Party was the Opium War.

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   Did Western writers write about the Opium War?

   • And that is a curious feature of the landscape of much Western writing about the Opium War. Until 20-odd years ago, most accounts written in English made detailed use of the English language sources while neglecting the rich array of Chinese evidence. So readers were left with a collection of rather Euro-centric interpretations.

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   Sep 1, 2011 · For example, The Economist's review of Lovell's book - a welter of words that remains one of the most imperialistic, chauvinistic, and sadistic pieces ever written about the Opium war in modern times - contains a sentence, added almost as an afterthought as if doing a favor to China in acknowledging British crimes: "Westerners have good reason to be ashamed of their treatment of China in the ...