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  title info:
    title: Creating the Opium War
    sub title: British imperial attitudes towards China, 1792-1840
  name:
    name part: Gao, Hao
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2020
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: ix, 210 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Creating the Opium War examines British imperial attitudes towards China during their early encounters from the Macartney embassy to the outbreak of the Opium War, a deeply consequential event which arguably reshaped relations between China and the West in the next century. It makes the first attempt to bring together the political history of Sino-Western relations and the cultural studies of British representations of China, as a new way of explaining the origins of the conflict. The book focuses on a crucial period (1792-1840), which scholars such as Kitson and Markley have recently compared in importance to that of American and French Revolutions. By examining a wealth of primary materials, some in more detail than ever before, this study reveals how the idea of war against China was created out of changing British perceptions of the country.
  table of contents: Introduction -- The Macartney embassy -- The Amherst embassy -- The EIC vs free traders -- 'Show of force' -- Justifying the Opium War -- Conclusion.
  note: Hao Gao.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-203) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-uk---
  subject:
    geographic: Great Britain
    topic: Foreign relations
    geographic: China
    temporal: 18th century
  subject:
    geographic: Great Britain
    topic: Foreign relations
    geographic: China
    temporal: 19th century
  classification: DS734.97.G7 G63 2020
  classification: 327.4105109/033
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Studies in imperialism (Manchester, England)
  identifier: 1526133423
  identifier: 9781526133427
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 190328
    record change date: 20200610094611.0
    record identifier: in00004087058