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The Opium War, 1840-1842: Barbarians in the Celestial Empire in the Early Part of the Nineteenth Century and the War by which They Forced Her Gates Ajar 0807847143, 9780807861363, 0807861367

Table of contents :
The old China trade. Papaver Somniferum
Canton and Macao
Managing the barbarians
The opium traffic
The end of the company --
Christ and opium. The napier fizzle
The Protestant mission
The Catholic mission
A rising tide
Peking in earnest
Lin and the twenty thousand chests
We won't go back!
India and England take notice
The coming of the war --
The war. The first expedition
At the Peiho
The blockade and the barrier
Chusan
Up the river to Canton
The city spared
San-yuan-li
A winter of waiting
Hongkong
The Yangtze campaign
China opened.

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