The Opium War, 1840-1842 : barbarians in the Celestial Empire in the early part of the nineteenth century and the war by which they forced her gates ajar
"This book tells the fascinating story of the war between England and China that delivered Hong Kong to the English, forced the imperial Chinese government to add four ports to Canton as places in which foreigners could live and trade, and rendered irreversible the process that for almost a century thereafter distinguished western relations with this quarter of the globe -- the process that is loosely termed the "opening of China." In a new preface, Fay reflects on the relationship between the events described in the book and Hong Kong's more recent history"--Jacket
Print Book, English, ©1997
University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, ©1997