Julia Lovell: The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams and the Making of Modern China
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- Kategoria: yhteiskunta & politiikka, alakategoria: valtio-oppi, politiikka
- Materiaali: Sidottu
- Kustantaja: Overlook Books
- Kieli: englanti
- ISBN: 9781468308952
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- Katseltu: 90 krt
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Beginning with the dramas of the war itself, Julia Lovell explores its causes and consequences and, through this larger narrative, interweaves the curious stories of opium s promoters and attackers. The Opium War is both the story of China s first conflict with the West and an analysis of the country s contemporary self-image. It explores how China s national myths mold its interactions with the outside world, how public memory is spun to serve the present; and how delusion and prejudice have bedeviled its relationship with the modern West. '