Download or read book Foreign Mud written by Maurice Collis and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based upon selected anecdotal stories written by British observers, this text reconstructs the events of the illegal opium trade in Canton in the 1830s and the war between Britain and China that followed. The volume is illustrated with b & w maps, prints, and photographs. Irish-born Collis (1889-1975) served for many years in the Indian Civil Service in Burma and later became a writer and critic in London. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Foreign Mud written by Maurice Collis and published by Three Continents. This book was released on 1980 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Foreign Mud written by Maurice Collis and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Foreign Mud Being an Account of the Opium Imbroglio at Canton in the 1830 s and TheAnglo Chinese War that Followed written by Maurice Collis and published by . This book was released on with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Foreign Mud Being an Account of the Opium Imbroglio At Canton in the 1830 and the Anglo Chinese War That Followed written by Maurice Collis and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Foreign Mud written by Maurice Collis and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Foreign Mud the Opium Imbroglio at Canton in the 1830 s and the Anglo Chinese War by Maurice Collis written by Maurice Collis and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Foreign Mud written by Maurice Collis and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Foreign Mud written by Maurice Collis and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Foreign Mud written by Maurice Collis and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new release of the original 1947 edition.
Download or read book being an account of the opium imbroglio at Canton in the 1830 s and the Anglo Chinese War that followed written by Maurice Collis and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Handbook of Christianity in China written by Nicolas Standaert and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009-12-01 with total page 1092 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second volume on Christianity in China covers the period from 1800 to the present day, dealing with the complexities of both Catholic and Protestant aspects.
Download or read book Ruan Yuan 1764 1849 written by Betty Peh-T'I Wei and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2006-08-01 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the life and work of Ruan Yuan (1764–1849), a scholar-official of renown in mid-Qing China prior to the Opium War, before traditional institutions and values became altered by incursions from the West. His distinction as an official, scholar, and patron of learning has been recognized by both his contemporaries and modern scholars. He was also exulted as an honest official and an exemplary man of the 'Confucian persuasion'. His name is mentioned in almost all the works on Qing history or Chinese classics because of the wide range of his research and publications. A number of these publications are still being reprinted today. This is the first full-length biography of Ruan Yuan in English, and the only one focusing on all aspects of the man's life and work in the context of his time. It follows Ruan Yuan from his childhood in Yangzhou, expansion of his intellectual horizons and political network in Beijing, his long service in the provinces handling some of the most thorny issues of the day in security and control, to the glory as a senior statesman in the capital, and retirement in Yangzhou.
Download or read book Britain s China Policy and the Opium Crisis written by Glenn Melancon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-28 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first Opium War (1840-42) was a defining moment in Anglo-Chinese relations, and since the 1840s the histories of its origins have tended to have been straightforward narratives, which suggest that the British Cabinet turned to its military to protect opium sales and to force open the China trade. Whilst the monetary aspects of the war cannot be ignored, this book argues that economic interests should not overshadow another important aspect of British foreign policy - honour and shame. The Palmerston's government recognised that failure to act with honour generated public outrage in the form of petitions to parliament and loss of votes, and as a result was at pains to take such considerations into account when making policy. Accordingly, British Cabinet officials worried less about the danger to economic interests than the threat to their honour and the possible loss of power in Parliament. The decision to wage a drug war, however, made the government vulnerable to charges of immorality, creating the need to justify the war by claiming it was acting to protect British national honour.
Download or read book The Dragon and the Foreign Devils written by Harry G. Gelber and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2007-05-01 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the present and future of China from the perspective of its past foreign relations, ranging from the invasions of the steppe horsemen and Mongol conquests to its fluid modern-day dynamic with the East and rapid economic growth.
Download or read book On China written by Henry Kissinger and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-05-17 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Fascinating, shrewd . . . The book deftly traces the rhythms and patterns of Chinese history.” —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times “No one can lay claim to so much influence on the shaping of foreign policy over the past 50 years as Henry Kissinger.” —The Financial Times In this sweeping and insightful history, Henry Kissinger turns for the first time at book length to a country he has known intimately for decades and whose modern relations with the West he helped shape. On China illuminates the inner workings of Chinese diplomacy during such pivotal events as the initial encounters between China and tight line modern European powers, the formation and breakdown of the Sino-Soviet alliance, the Korean War, and Richard Nixon’s historic trip to Beijing. With a new final chapter on the emerging superpower’s twenty-first-century role in global politics and economics, On China provides historical perspective on Chinese foreign affairs from one of the premier statesmen of our time.
Download or read book Mr X and the Pacific written by Paul J. Heer and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text chronicles and assesses the little-known involvement of US diplomat George F. Kennan - renowned as an expert on the Soviet Union-in US policy toward East Asia, primarily in the early Cold War years.
