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The Opium War

The Opium War
  • تصنيف الكتاب: Ideas and policies, Social Studies

The Opium War

‘A gripping read as well as an important one’ – Rana Mitter, The Guardian In The Opium War, professor of Modern Chinese History and Literature Julia Lovell offers a compelling account of the causes and fallout of the Opium Wars. 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.
Publisher Pan Macmillan
Author Julia Lovell
Country United Kingdom
Publication Date 12/03/2026
Pages 512
Edition first
Size 6×9
About the Author Julia Lovell teaches modern Chinese history at Birkbeck College, University of London. She is the author of The Opium War: Drugs, Drama And The Making Of China, The Great Wall: China Against the World and The Politics of Cultural Capital: China’s Quest for a Nobel Prize in Literature and writes on China for the Guardian, Independent and The Times Literary Supplement. Her many translations of modern Chinese fiction include Lu Xun’s The Real Story of Ah-Q, and Other Tales of China.
Publisher Address webqueries@macmillan.co.uk
ISBN 9781035091324

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