Creating the Opium War
British imperial attitudes towards China, 1792-1840
Creating the Opium War examines British imperial attitudes towards China during their early encounters from the Macartney embassy to the outbreak of the Opium War - a deeply consequential event which arguably reshaped relations between China and the West in the next century. It makes the first attempt to bring together the political history of Sino-western relations and the cultural studies of British representations of China, as a new way of explaining the origins of the conflict. The book focuses on a crucial period (1792-1840), which scholars such as Kitson and Markley have recently compared in importance to that of American and French Rev…
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- ISBN: 978-1-5261-6365-3
- EAN: 9781526163653
- Produktnummer: 37740937
- Verlag: Manchester University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
- Seitenangabe: 222 S.
- Masse: H23.4 cm x B15.6 cm x D1.2 cm 345 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 345
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