Deadly dreams : opium, imperialism, and the Arrow War (1856-1860) in China
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Deadly dreams : opium, imperialism, and the Arrow War (1856-1860) in China
(Cambridge studies in Chinese history, literature and institutions)
Cambridge University Press, 2002, c1998
- : pbk
Available at 2 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
"First paperback edition 2002"
Bibliography: p. 495-524
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The Arrow War (1856-60) involved all the world's major powers, and could almost be called a world war because of the global economic and diplomatic issues driving it. For twenty-five years Dr John Wong has been trying to discover the true origins of the war. What began as a study of an alleged insult to the British flag supposedly flying over the boat Arrow led to an analysis of complex Chinese and British diplomacy; of the even more complex Chinese tea and silk exports; of British India's jealously guarded economic strategies and opium monopoly; of cotton supplied to the Lancashire mills by the Americans, who thereby made up their trade deficit with China occasioned by their heavy purchases of tea; of intricate Westminster politics and British global trade; of French pride and cultural priorities; of Russian intrigues and territorial designs; and of America's apparent aloofness and real ambitions.
Table of Contents
- Part I. The Confusion of Imperialism: 1. An attempt to peel the onion of confusion
- Part II. The Pretext for Imperialism: 2. An international incident: 'that wretched question of the Arrow'
- Part III. The Personalities of Imperialism: 3. Harry Parkes: 'if you would read a little international law.' - Punch
- 4. Sir John Bowring: possessed by a monomania
- 5. Commissioner Yeh: a 'monster'?
- 6. Rule, Britannia and vox populi, vox Dei
- Part IV. The Rhetoric of Imperialism: 7. Marx, Punch, and a political press: the debate among the British newspapers
- 8. The Arrow incident and international law: the debate in the House of Lords
- 9. Triumph of the liberal conscience: the debate in the House of Commons
- 10. 'Johnny is on his knees': the 'Chinese Election'
- Part V. The Mechanics of Imperialism: 11. Behind the scenes: the diplomacy of imperialism
- 12. Behind the scenes: the politics of imperialism
- 13. In the wings: the lobbies of imperialism
- Part VI. The Economics of Imperialism: 14. Anglo-Chinese trade: the Chinese should buy more
- 15. China's maritime trade: the Chinese could buy more
- 16. The problem of India: the Chinese should and could buy more
- 17. The balance sheet: the Chinese are now buying more
- Part VII. The Dynamics of Imperialism: 18. Conclusion.
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