This fascinating history explores the wide range of views of Britons in late-imperial China as they chafed under the restrictions imposed by the Canton System. John M. Carroll brings a seminal period in the Anglo-Chinese relationship, which revolved around tea and opium, to life through the words of those who experienced it intimately.
This fascinating history explores the wide range of views of Britons in late-imperial China as they chafed under the restrictions imposed by the Canton System. John M. Carroll brings a seminal period in the Anglo-Chinese relationship, which revolved around tea and opium, to life through the words of those who experienced it intimately.
John M. Carroll is professor of history at the University of Hong Kong. He is the author of Edge of Empires: Chinese Elites and British Colonials in Hong Kong, A Concise History of Hong Kong, and Canton Days: British Life and Death in China.
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Introduction 1 The Crying Abuses: Explanations Restricted China Stationary China Despotic China The Tartars and Their Empire Not Entirely Unreasonable Themselves to Blame Hood-winked 2 The Crying Abuses: Solutions Visitors Weigh In Intimidation or Restraint? At Home Improving Their Own Situation Somewhere Else 3 Being There Challenging the Jesuits A Peculiar Monopoly Interesting Evidence Opinions Grounded upon Experience The Terms Controversy Setting the Record Straight War, Hong Kong, and Beyond 4 Sizing Up China An Immense and Unparalleled Population A Horrid Practice So Extraordinary a Custom Footbinding and the War to Open China 5 The Opium Debates Opium Mania Opium in the Press The Issues James Innes Setting the Record Straight, Again Opium and War Epilogue: China Freed Bibliography
Introduction 1 The Crying Abuses: Explanations Restricted China Stationary China Despotic China The Tartars and Their Empire Not Entirely Unreasonable Themselves to Blame Hood-winked 2 The Crying Abuses: Solutions Visitors Weigh In Intimidation or Restraint? At Home Improving Their Own Situation Somewhere Else 3 Being There Challenging the Jesuits A Peculiar Monopoly Interesting Evidence Opinions Grounded upon Experience The Terms Controversy Setting the Record Straight War, Hong Kong, and Beyond 4 Sizing Up China An Immense and Unparalleled Population A Horrid Practice So Extraordinary a Custom Footbinding and the War to Open China 5 The Opium Debates Opium Mania Opium in the Press The Issues James Innes Setting the Record Straight, Again Opium and War Epilogue: China Freed Bibliography
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