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Merchants of war and peace : British knowledge of China in the making of the opium war
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Chen, Song-Chuan (2017) Merchants of war and peace : British knowledge of China in the making of the opium war. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press. ISBN 9789888390564
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Abstract
Merchants of War and Peace challenges conventional arguments that the major driving forces of the First Opium War were the infamous opium smuggling trade, the defence of British national honour, and cultural conflicts between ‘progressive’ Britain and ‘backward’ China. Instead, it argues that the war was started by a group of British merchants in the Chinese port of Canton in the 1830s, known as the ‘Warlike party’. Living in a period when British knowledge of China was growing rapidly, the Warlike party came to understand China’s weakness and its members returned to London to lobby for intervention until war broke out in 1839.
| Item Type: | Book | ||||
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > History | ||||
| Publisher: | Hong Kong University Press | ||||
| Place of Publication: | Hong Kong | ||||
| ISBN: | 9789888390564 | ||||
| Official Date: | May 2017 | ||||
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| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||
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