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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Lovell, Julia, 1975-     Subjects     China -- History -- Opium War, 1840-1842.     Great Britain -- History -- Victoria, 1837-1901.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Lovell, Julia, 1975-       by title:      The Opium War : drug...         MARC Display

The Opium War : drugs, dreams and the making of China / Julia Lovell. by Lovell, Julia, 1975- New York, NY : The Overlook Press, 2014. Subjects China -- History -- Opium War, 1840-1842.   Great Britain -- History -- Victoria, 1837-1901. ISBN:  9781468308952 (hardcover) : 1468308955 (hardcover) Description:  xxiv, 456 pages, 32 pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm Contents:  Opium and China -- Daoguang's decision -- Canton spring -- Opium and lime -- The first shots -- "An explanatory declaration" -- Sweet-talk and sea-slug -- Qishan's downfall -- The siege of Canton -- The unEnglished Englishman -- Xiamen and Zhoushan -- A winter in Suzhou -- The fight for Qing China -- The Treaty of Nanjing -- Peace and war -- The Yellow Peril -- The national disease -- Communist conspiracies. Requests:  0 Summary:  Details the 1839 Opium War and the red tape, incompetence, and political cronyism that surrounded China's first conflict with the West and how these events fueled the foundation for modern Chinese nationalism.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Language, Literature & History 951.033 Lo Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hilo Public Library Adult Nonfiction 951.033 Lovell Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kailua Public Library Adult Nonfiction 951.033 Lo Checked In Add Copy to MyList Thelma Parker Memorial P/S Library Adult Nonfiction 951.033 Lo Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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