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- catalog abstract ""Jack Beeching's enlightening account of a notorious epoch in nineteenth-century imperialism sets the background for China's view of the West today. In the 1820s British merchants were under pressure to expand trade with China to pay for its tea and silk. The only readily available commodity the British had to offer was high-grade Bengalese opium, distributed through the East India company. By guile, bribery, and violence, the drug habit was so successfully implanted in China that by the middle of the century opium was the largest single cash commodity in the world. The Chinese government's efforts to stamp out the destructive, though highly profitable, trade erupted in a series of minor wars with the West between 1830 and 1860, climaxed by the looting and burning of the Summer Palace. Known as the Opium wars and hardly remembered by the victors, they are still vivid in the minds of China's present-day leaders" -- from page 4 of cover.".
- catalog contributor b1589118.
- catalog contributor b1589119.
- catalog contributor b1589120.
- catalog coverage "China History Foreign intervention, 1857-1861.".
- catalog coverage "China History Opium War, 1840-1842.".
- catalog created "[1977], c1975.".
- catalog date "1977".
- catalog date "[1977], c1975.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "[1977], c1975.".
- catalog description ""Jack Beeching's enlightening account of a notorious epoch in nineteenth-century imperialism sets the background for China's view of the West today. In the 1820s British merchants were under pressure to expand trade with China to pay for its tea and silk. The only readily available commodity the British had to offer was high-grade Bengalese opium, distributed through the East India company. By guile, bribery, and violence, the drug habit was so successfully implanted in China that by the middle of the century opium was the largest single cash commodity in the world. The Chinese government's efforts to stamp out the destructive, though highly profitable, trade erupted in a series of minor wars with the West between 1830 and 1860, climaxed by the looting and burning of the Summer Palace. Known as the Opium wars and hardly remembered by the victors, they are still vivid in the minds of China's present-day leaders" -- from page 4 of cover.".
- catalog description "Bibliography: p. 335-338.".
- catalog extent "352 p., [8] leaves of plates :".
- catalog identifier "0156170949".
- catalog isPartOf "Harvest book ; HB 350".
- catalog issued "1977".
- catalog issued "[1977], c1975.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich,".
- catalog spatial "China History Foreign intervention, 1857-1861.".
- catalog spatial "China History Opium War, 1840-1842.".
- catalog spatial "China".
- catalog subject "951/.03".
- catalog subject "DS757.5 .B35 1977".
- catalog subject "Opium trade China History.".
- catalog title "The Chinese Opium Wars / Jack Beeching.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".