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The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams and the Making of China (Repost)

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The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams and the Making of China (Repost)

The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams and the Making of China by Julia Lovell
English | 2011 | ISBN: 0330457489 | 352 Pages | EPUB | 5 MB

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.


The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams and the Making of China (Repost)