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The Chinese Opium Wars

Jack Beeching

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.

GenresOpium tradeChinaHistoryOpium War, 1840-1842Foreign intervention, 1857-1861

352 pages

English edition · First published 1977 by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich · ISBN 9780156170949

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