The Chinese Opium Wars
Jack Beeching
352 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 0156170949
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Language: English
Publish: April 6, 1977
An enlightening account of a notorious period in nineteenth-century imperialism, when an effort by the Chinese government to stamp out the country’s profitable opium trade resulted in a series of conflicts known as the Opium Wars. Index; illustrations and map.