Narrative of the Earl of Elgin's Mission to China and Japan in the Years 1857, '58, '59
Narrative of the Earl of Elgin's Mission to China and Japan in the Years 1857, '58, '59

Author: Laurence Oliphant

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2023-04-24

Total Pages: 549

ISBN-13: 338231780X

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1859. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

Opium Wars
Opium Wars

Author: W. Travis Hanes III

Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.

Published: 2004-02-01

Total Pages: 349

ISBN-13: 1402229690

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In this tragic and powerful story, the two Opium Wars of 1839 1842 and 1856 1860 between Britain and China are recounted for the first time through the eyes of the Chinese as well as the Imperial West. Opium entered China during the Middle Ages when Arab traders brought it into China for medicinal purposes. As it took hold as a recreational drug, opium wrought havoc on Chinese society. By the early nineteenth century, 90 percent of the Emperor's court and the majority of the army were opium addicts. Britain was also a nation addicted-to tea, grown in China, and paid for with profits made from the opium trade. When China tried to ban the use of the drug and bar its Western smugglers from it gates, England decided to fight to keep open China's ports for its importation. England, the superpower of its time, managed to do so in two wars, resulting in a drug-induced devastation of the Chinese people that would last 150 years. In this page-turning, dramatic and colorful history, The Opium Wars responds to past, biased Western accounts by representing the neglected Chinese version of the story and showing how the wars stand as one of the monumental clashes between the cultures of East and West. "A fine popular account."-Publishers Weekly "Their account of the causes, military campaigns and tragic effects of these wars is absorbing, frequently macabre and deeply unsettling."-Booklist

Opium
Opium

Author: Thomas Dormandy

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2012-05-15

Total Pages: 377

ISBN-13: 0300175329

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Discusses the history of the drug, from stone-age time to present day, including its mainstream use as a painkiller and its current status as an illicit narcotic.

As We Saw Them
As We Saw Them

Author: Masao Miyoshi

Publisher: Paul Dry Books

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 1589880234

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"Alarming and hilarious as two cultures meet at the court of President Buchanan." - Gore Vidal

British Engagement with Japan, 1854–1922
British Engagement with Japan, 1854–1922

Author: Antony Best

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-11-26

Total Pages: 195

ISBN-13: 1351105140

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This book by a leading authority on Anglo-Japanese relations reconsiders the circumstances which led to the unlikely alliance of 1902 to 1922 between Britain, the leading world power of the day and Japan, an Asian, non-European nation which had only recently emerged from self-imposed isolation. Based on extensive original research the book goes beyond existing accounts which concentrate on high politics, strategy and simple assertions about the two countries’ similarities as island empires. It brings into the picture cultural factors, particularly the ways in which Japan was portrayed in Britain, and ambivalent British attitudes to race and supposed European superiority which were overcome but remained difficulties. It charts how the relationship developed as events unfolded, including Japan’s wars against China and Russia, and in addition looks at royal diplomacy, where the Japanese Court came eventually to be treated as a respected equal. Overall, the book provides a major reassessment of this important subject.