Books
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The Opium War, 1840-1842 | Peter Ward Fay | A history of opium usage in China, starting with the East India Company in Calcutta, and its monopoly over the opium trade. The great trading companies of Canton smuggled opium into mainland China de… | OL2715018W |
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The Chinese Opium Wars | Jack Beeching | "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… | OL4578272W |