Ebook: The Opium War, 1840-1842: Barbarians in the Celestial Empire in the Early Part of the Nineteenth Century and the War by which They Forced Her Gates Ajar

This book tells the fascinating story of the war between England and China that delivered Hong Kong to the English, forced the imperial Chinese government to add four ports to Canton as places in which foreigners could live and trade, and rendered irreversible the process that for almost a century thereafter distinguished western relations with this quarter of the globe-- the process that is loosely termed the ""opening of China."" Originally published by UNC Press in 1975, Peter Ward Fay's study was the first to treat extensively the opium trade from the point of production in India t.;The old China trade. Papaver Somniferum ; Canton and Macao ; Managing the barbarians ; The opium traffic ; The end of the company -- Christ and opium. The napier fizzle ; The Protestant mission ; The Catholic mission ; A rising tide ; Peking in earnest ; Lin and the twenty thousand chests ; We won't go back! ; India and England take notice ; The coming of the war -- The war. The first expedition ; At the Peiho ; The blockade and the barrier ; Chusan ; Up the river to Canton ; The city spared ; San-yuan-li ; A winter of waiting ; Hongkong ; The Yangtze campaign ; China opened.