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100	1		_aHanes, William Travis _d, 1954-
245	1	0	_athe opium wars : the addiction of one empire and the corruption of another _c/ W. Travis Hanes III and Frank Sanello .
260			_aNaperville, Ill. _b: Sourcebooks _c, c2002.
300			_axii, 334 p. _b: ill., maps _c; 24 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [321]-322) and index.
505	0	0	_aIntroduction chemical warfare -- Lord Elgin's revenge -- Disastrous etiquette -- Zero intolerance -- Canton besieged -- The black hole of Canton -- The battle in Britain -- Drugs and guns -- Diplomacy by gunboat -- The economics of addiction -- Crucifixion and cages -- Steamed victory -- A price on his head -- The sacking of Amoy, Ningbo and Charles Elliot -- Chinese masada -- Early Victorian vikings -- The trade in poison and pigs -- Strange interlude -- Outrageous slings and the arrows misfortune -- Peer pressure -- Scottish conquistador -- Hostilities renewed -- Lord Elgin's return -- To the gates of Peking -- The hostage crisis -- "I am not a thief" -- Rescure and retaliation -- The Diktat of Peking.
520			_aIn this tragic and powerful story, the two Opium Wars of 1839-1842 and 1856-1860 between Britain and China are recounted for the first time through the eyes of the Chinese as well as the Imperial West. Opium entered China during the Middle Ages when Arab traders brought it into China for medicinal purposes. As it took hold as a recreational drug, opium wrought havoc on Chinese society. By the early nineteenth century, 90 percent of the Emperor's court and the majority of the army were opium addicts. Britain was also a nation addicted -- to tea, grown in China, and paid for with profits made from the opium trade. When China tried to ban the use of the drug and bar its Western smugglers from it gates, England decided to fight to keep open China's ports for its importation. England, the superpower of its time, managed to do so in two wars, resulting in a drug-induced devastation of the Chinese people that would last 150 years. In this page-turning, dramatic and colorful history, The Opium Wars responds to past, biased Western accounts by representing the neglected Chinese version of the story and showing how the wars stand as one of the monumental clashes between the cultures of East and West.
651		4	_aChina _x--History _y--Opium Wars, 1840-1842
651		4	_aChina _x--History _y--Foreign intervention, 1857-1861
700	1		_aSanello, Frank
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