British Trade and the Opening of China 1800-1842
| Author | : Michael Greenberg |
| Publisher | : CUP Archive |
| Total Pages | : 264 |
| Release | : 1969 |
| Genre | : Opium trade |
| ISBN | : |
British Trade And The Opening Of China 1800 1842
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Shanghai's Bund and Beyond
| Author | : Niv Horesh |
| Publisher | : Yale University Press |
| Total Pages | : 255 |
| Release | : 2009-06-23 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 0300143621 |
As China emerges as a global powerhouse, this title examines its economic past and the shaping of its financial institutions.
British Trade and the Opening of China, 1800-42
| Author | : Michael Greenberg |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 262 |
| Release | : 1979 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : |
Creating the Opium War
| Author | : Hao Gao |
| Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
| Total Pages | : 235 |
| Release | : 2019-12-20 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 152613344X |
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 Revolutions. By examining a wealth of primary materials, some in more detail than ever before, this study reveals how the idea of war against China was created out of changing British perceptions of the country.
History of the Opium Problem
| Author | : Hans Derks |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 851 |
| Release | : 2012-04-18 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9004221581 |
Covering a period of about four centuries, this book demonstrates the economic and political components of the opium problem. As a mass product, opium was introduced in India and Indonesia by the Dutch in the 17th century. China suffered the most, but was also the first to get rid of the opium problem around 1950.
Narratives of Free Trade
| Author | : Kendall Johnson |
| Publisher | : Hong Kong University Press |
| Total Pages | : 271 |
| Release | : 2011-12-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9888083538 |
Nine essays discuss the first commercial encounters between a China on the verge of systemic social change and a United States struggling to assert itself globally as a distinct nation after the Revolutionary War, from the arrival in Canton of the first American ship in the 1870s, to the 1844 Treaty of Wangxia in Macao after the First Opium War, to Secretary of State John Hay's forging of the Open Door policy in 1899. Broad in scope, the essays are attuned to the activities of competing European traders, especially the British, in Canton, Macao, and the Pearl River Delta. Kendall Johnsonis director of the American Studies Program and associate professor at the University of Hong Kong.
Imperial China, 1350–1900
| Author | : Jonathan Porter |
| Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
| Total Pages | : 411 |
| Release | : 2016-02-04 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 144222293X |
This clear and engaging book provides a concise overview of the Ming-Qing epoch (1368–1912), China’s last imperial age. Beginning with the end of the Mongol domination of China in 1368, this five-century period was remarkable for its continuity and stability until its downfall in the Revolution of 1911. Viewing the Ming and Qing dynasties as a coherent era characterized by the fruition of diverse developments from earliest times, Jonathan Porter traces the growth of imperial autocracy, the role of the educated Confucian elite as custodians of cultural authority, the significance of ritual as the grounding of political and social order, the tension between monarchy and bureaucracy in political discourse, the evolution of Chinese cultural identity, and the perception of the “barbarian” and other views of the world beyond China. As the climax of traditional Chinese history and the harbinger of modern China in the twentieth century, Porter argues that imperial China must be explored for its own sake as well as for the essential foundation it provides in understanding contemporary China, and indeed world history writ large.
Hong Kong as a Global Metropolis
| Author | : David R. Meyer |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 292 |
| Release | : 2000-05-04 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1139427857 |
Hong Kong has remained the global metropolis for Asia since its founding in the 1840s following the Opium Wars between Britain and China. David Meyer traces its vibrant history from the arrival of the foreign trading firms, when it was established as one of the leading Asian business centres, to its celebrated handover to China in 1997. Throughout this period, Hong Kong has been prominent as a pivotal meeting place of the Chinese and foreign social networks of capital and as such has been China's window on to the world economy, dominating other financial centers such as Singapore and Tokyo. Looking into the future, the author presents an optimistic view of Hong Kong in the twenty-first century, challenging those who predict its decline under Chinese rule. This accessible and broad-ranging look at the story of Hong Kong's success will interest anyone concerned with its past, present and future.
When America First Met China: An Exotic History of Tea, Drugs, and Money in the Age of Sail
| Author | : Eric Jay Dolin |
| Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
| Total Pages | : 508 |
| Release | : 2012-09-10 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 087140348X |
Ancient China collides with newfangled America in this epic tale of opium smugglers, sea pirates, and dueling clipper ships. Brilliantly illuminating one of the least-understood areas of American history, best-selling author Eric Jay Dolin now traces our fraught relationship with China back to its roots: the unforgiving nineteenth-century seas that separated a brash, rising naval power from a battered ancient empire. It is a prescient fable for our time, one that surprisingly continues to shed light on our modern relationship with China. Indeed, the furious trade in furs, opium, and bêche-de-mer—a rare sea cucumber delicacy—might have catalyzed America’s emerging economy, but it also sparked an ecological and human rights catastrophe of such epic proportions that the reverberations can still be felt today. Peopled with fascinating characters—from the “Financier of the Revolution” Robert Morris to the Chinese emperor Qianlong, who considered foreigners inferior beings—this page-turning saga of pirates and politicians, coolies and concubines becomes a must-read for any fan of Nathaniel Philbrick’s Mayflower or Mark Kurlansky’s Cod.
