Tag: Opium

Free Download Haijian Mao, "The Qing Empire and the Opium War: The Collapse of the Heavenly Dynasty "
English | ISBN: 1108455417 | 2018 | 569 pages | DJVU | 23 MB
The Opium War of 1839-42, the first military conflict to take place between China and the West, is a subject of enduring interest. Mao Haijian, one of the most distinguished and well-known historians working in China, presents the culmination of more than ten years of research in a revisionist reading of the conflict and its main Chinese protagonists. Mao examines the Qing participants in terms of the moral standards and intellectual norms of their own time, demonstrating that actions which have struck later observers as ridiculous can be understood as reasonable within these individuals’ own context. This English-language translation of Mao’s work offers a comprehensive response to the question of why the Qing Empire was so badly defeated by the British in the first Opium War – an answer that is distinctive and original within both Chinese and Western historiography, and supported by a wealth of hitherto unknown detail.

Free Download The Lion and the Dragon: Britain’s Opium Wars with China 1839-1860 by Mark Simner
English | July 26, 2019 | ISBN: 1781557179 | 304 pages | PDF | 5.58 Mb
During the middle of the 19th-Century, Britain and China would twice go to war over trade, and in particular the trade in opium. The Chinese people had progressively become addicted to the narcotic, a habit that British merchants were more than happy to feed from their opium-poppy fields in India. When the Qing dynasty rulers of China attempted to suppress this trade-due to the serious social and economic problems it caused-the British Government responded with gunboat diplomacy, and conflict soon ensued.

Free Download Opium Inc.: How a Global Drug Trade Funded the British Empire
English | 2021 | ISBN: B09F71K3B1 | Format: MP3 / 9h 27m + EPUB | 260 Mb
This is the story of the world’s biggest drug deal.
In the 19th century, the British East India Company operated a triangle of trade that straddled the globe, running from India to China to Britain. From India to China, they took opium. From China to Britain, they took tea. From Britain to India, they brought empire. It was a machine that consumed cheap Indian land and labor and spat out money.
The British had two problems, though. They were importing enormous amounts of tea from China, but the Celestial Empire looked down on British goods and only wanted silver in return. Simultaneously, the expanding colony in India was proving far too expensive to maintain. The British solved both problems with opium, which became the source of income on which they built their empire.

Free Download Imperial Twilight: The Opium War and the End of China’s Last Golden Age by Stephen R. Platt, Mark Deakins, Random House Audio
English | 2018 | ISBN: B07C3CPG3V | MP3@64 kbps | ~17:50:00 pages | EPUB | 567 Mb
As China reclaims its position as a world power, Imperial Twilight looks back to tell the story of the country’s last age of ascendance and how it came to an end in the 19th-century Opium War.
As one of the most potent turning points in the country’s modern history, the Opium War has since come to stand for everything that today’s China seeks to put behind it.
In this dramatic, epic story, award-winning historian Stephen Platt sheds new light on the early attempts by Western traders and missionaries to "open" China even as China’s imperial rulers were struggling to manage their country’s decline and Confucian scholars grappled with how to use foreign trade to China’s advantage.

Free Download Jack Beeching, "The Chinese Opium Wars"
English | ISBN: 0156170949 | | 352 pages | PDF | 33 MB
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.

Free Download Mark Simner, "The Lion and the Dragon: Britain’s Opium Wars with China 1839-1860"
English | ISBN: 1781557179 | 2019 | 304 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
During the middle of the 19th-Century, Britain and China would twice go to war over trade, and in particular the trade in opium. The Chinese people had progressively become addicted to the narcotic, a habit that British merchants were more than happy to feed from their opium-poppy fields in India. When the Qing dynasty rulers of China attempted to suppress this trade-due to the serious social and economic problems it caused-the British Government responded with gunboat diplomacy, and conflict soon ensued.

Free Download The Opium Queen: The Untold Story of the Rebel Who Ruled the Golden Triangle by Gabrielle Paluch
English | April 15, 2023 | ISBN: 1538131978 | 236 pages | MOBI | 7.18 Mb
Publishers Weekly calls the book "a jaw dropping study of a lesser-known yet larger-than-life figure."

Free Download The Opium War by Brian Inglis, Nigel Patterson, Tantor Audio
English | 2021 | ISBN: B08WHWP7QR | 9 hours and 17 minutes | MP3@64 kbps + EPUB | 126 Mb
1839. Trade is the stalwart of the British Empire. China threatens Britain’s Opium trade. Britain and China go to war.
When Britain sent troops to compel the Chinese to accept imports of opium, they opened what is argued to be one of the most disgraceful chapters in the history of the Empire.