Merchants of War and Peacetxt,chm,pdf,epub,mobi下载 作者: Song-Chuan Chen 出版社: Hong Kong University Press 副标题: British Knowledge of China in the Making of the Opium War 出版年: 2017-5-2 页数: 248 定价: USD 50.00 装帧: Hardcover ISBN: 9789888390564 内容简介 · · · · · ·Merchants of War and Peace challenges conventional arguments that the major driving forces of the First Opium War were the infamous opium smuggling trade, the defence of British national honour, and cultural conflicts between ‘progressive’ Britain and ‘backward’ China. Instead, it argues that the war was started by a group of British merchants in the Chinese port of Canton in t... 作者简介 · · · · · ·Song-Chuan Chen (PhD, Cambridge) is an assistant professor at Nanyang Technological University Singapore. He specializes in modern Chinese history; his research focuses on the history of Sino-Western interactions and the history of the Chinese lower classes. 目录 · · · · · ·ContentsPrologue viii Map of the Pearl River Delta in the 1830s x 1. Introduction 1 2. The Warlike and Pacific Parties 11 3. Breaking the Soft Border 38 · · · · · · () Contents Prologue viii Map of the Pearl River Delta in the 1830s x 1. Introduction 1 2. The Warlike and Pacific Parties 11 3. Breaking the Soft Border 38 4. Intellectual Artillery 61 5. A War of Words over ‘Barbarian 82 6. Reasoning Britain into a War 103 7. The Regret of a Nation 126 8. Conclusions: Profit Orders of Canton 150 Acknowledgements 161 Notes 163 Glossary 193 Bibliography 196 Index 222 · · · · · · () |
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