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Opium War
Julia Lovell
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Description for Opium War
Paperback. 'Lively, erudite and meticulously researched' Literary Review Num Pages: 480 pages, Illustrations (some col.), maps, ports. (some col.). BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 33. Weight in Grams: 398.
`A gripping read as well as an important one.' Rana Mitter, Guardian 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. Starting from this first conflict, The Opium War explores how China's national myths mould its interactions with the outside world, how public memory ... Read more
`A gripping read as well as an important one.' Rana Mitter, Guardian 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. Starting from this first conflict, The Opium War explores how China's national myths mould its interactions with the outside world, how public memory ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Picador
Condition
New
Number of Pages
480
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780330457484
SKU
9780330457484
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About Julia Lovell
Julia Lovell teaches modern Chinese history at Birkbeck College, University of London. She is the author of 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, most ... Read more
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