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THE OPIUM WAR - JULIA LOVELL KARTONIERT (TB)

'A gripping read as well as an important one.' Rana Mitter  Guardian In October 1839  Britain
entered the first Opium War with China. Its brutality notwithstanding  the conflict was also
threaded with tragicomedy: with Victorian hypocrisy  bureaucratic fumblings  military missteps
political opportunism and collaboration. Yet over the past hundred and seventy years  this
strange tale of misunderstanding  incompetence and compromise has become the founding episode
of modern Chinese nationalism. Starting from this first conflict  The Opium War explores how
China's national myths mould its interactions with the outside world  how public memory is spun
to serve the present  and how delusion and prejudice have bedevilled its relationship with the
modern West. 'Lively  erudite and meticulously researched' Literary Review 'An important
reminder of how the memory of the Opium War continues to cast a dark shadow.' Sunday Times

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