The Opium War
Drugs, Dreams and the Making of China
by Julia Lovell · first published 2011
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I recommend reading Opium Wars by Julia Lovell. [1] To answer your question - main lobbyst behind first Opium War was Scottish opium trader James Matheson [2]. The fortune he had made on selling opium to China had been invested in…
on “The Opium Wars Still Shape China’s View of the West” ↗> Julia Lovell, a British historian, makes a similar point. In her book “The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams and the Making of China”, she says the move into opium by British traders was not, as claimed by many Chinese historians, a deliberate conspiracy to make narcotic slaves of the Chinese.…
on “The Opium Wars Still Shape China’s View of the West” ↗