Creating the Opium War: British Imperial Attitudes Towards China, 1792-1840

by Hao Gao

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1526163659
• ISBN13: 9781526163653
• Release Date: March 2022
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"