The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams and the Making of China by Julia Lovell

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

Julia Lovell

456 pages first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
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"'On the outside, [the foreigners] seem intractable, but inside they are cowardly ... Although there have been a few ups-and-downs, the situation as a whole is under control.' In October 1839, a few months after the Chinese Imperial Commissioner, ...

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