Description: The Arrow War (1856-60) involved all the world's major powers, and could almost be called a world war because of the global economic and diplomatic issues driving it. For twenty-five years Dr John Wong has been trying to discover the true origins of the war. What began as a study of an alleged insult to the British flag supposedly flying over the boat Arrow led to an analysis of complex Chinese and British diplomacy; of the even more complex Chinese tea and silk exports; of British India's jealously guarded economic strategies and opium monopoly; of cotton supplied to the Lancashire mills by the Americans, who thereby made up their trade deficit with China occasioned by their heavy purchases of tea; of intricate Westminster politics and British global trade; of French pride and cultural priorities; of Russian intrigues and territorial designs; and of America's apparent aloofness and real ambitions.
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EAN: 9780521526197
UPC: 9780521526197
ISBN: 9780521526197
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Number of Pages: 576 Pages
Publication Name: Deadly Dreams : Opium and the Arrow War (1856-1860) in China
Language: English
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication Year: 2002
Subject: Europe / Great Britain / Victorian Era (1837-1901), Europe / Renaissance, Commerce, International Relations / General, Asia / China
Item Height: 1.6 in
Item Weight: 35.3 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Political Science, Business & Economics, History
Author: J. Y. Wong
Item Length: 9.1 in
Item Width: 6.1 in
Series: Cambridge Studies in Chinese History, Literature and Institutions Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
