The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams, and the Making of Modern China by Lovell, Julia
The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams, and the Making of Modern China by Lovell, Julia

The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams, and the Making of Modern China

"A crisp and readable account... A heartbreaking story of a war." (Washington Post) The Opium War is...
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Author: Julia Lovell
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Language: English
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The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams, and the Making of Modern China by Lovell, Julia

The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams, and the Making of Modern China

$28.16
The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams, and the Making of Modern China by Lovell, Julia

The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams, and the Making of Modern China

$28.16
Author: Julia Lovell
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
"A crisp and readable account... A heartbreaking story of a war." (Washington Post)

The Opium War is both the story of China's first conflict with the West and an analysis of the country's contemporary self-image. It explores how China's national myths mold its interactions with the outside world, how public memory is spun to serve the present; and how delusion and prejudice have bedeviled its relationship with the modern West.

The conflict turned out to be rich in tragicomedy: in bureaucratic fumblings, military missteps, political opportunism and collaboration. Yet over the past 170 years, this strange tale of misunderstanding, incompetence and compromise has become the founding myth of modern Chinese nationalism: the start of China's heroic struggle against a Western conspiracy to destroy the country with opium and gunboat diplomacy.

Beginning with the dramas of the war itself, Julia Lovell explores its causes and consequences and, through this larger narrative, interweaves the curious stories of opium's promoters and attackers.

Shortlisted for the Guggenheim-Lehrman Military History Prize, The Opium War is by Julia Lovel, professor of Modern Chinese History and Literature at Birkbeck, University of London, where her research has been focused principally on the relationship between culture (specifically, literature, architecture, historiography and sport) and modern Chinese nation-building.

Author: Julia Lovell
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Published: 11/10/2015
Pages: 512
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.49lbs
Size: 8.98h x 5.98w x 1.50d
ISBN: 9781468311730


Award: Cundill Prize - Finalist

About the Author
Lovell, Julia: - Julia Lovell is an author, translator, and academic. She is the author of the widely acclaimed The Great Wall: China Against the World 1000 BC-AD 2000, which was published in eighteen countries. She has translated many key Chinese works into English, including Lust, Caution by Eileen Chang, The Complete Fiction of Lu Xun, and Serve the People by Yan Lianke. She is a lecturer in modern Chinese history and literature at the University of London and writes for the Guardian, The Times, the Economist, and the Times Literary Supplement. She spends a large part of the year in China with her family.

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