![]() ![]() ![]() Buy a discounted Paperback of The Opium War online. ![]() 'An important reminder of how the memory of the Opium War continues to cast a dark shadow. Booktopia has The Opium War, Drugs, Dreams, and the Making of Modern China by Professor Julia Lovell. 'Lively, erudite and meticulously researched' Literary Review Starting from this first conflict, The Opium War explores how China's national myths mould its interactions with the outside world, how public memory is spun to serve the present, and how delusion and prejudice have bedevilled its relationship with the modern West. 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. Its brutality notwithstanding, the conflict was also threaded with tragicomedy: with Victorian hypocrisy, bureaucratic fumblings, military missteps, political opportunism and collaboration. In October 1839, Britain entered the first Opium War with China. Click here to purchase from Rakuten Kobo 'A gripping read as well as an important one.' Rana Mitter, Guardian ![]()
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