China Hands and Old Cantons
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China Hands and Old Cantons
Britons and the Middle Kingdom
Carroll, John M.
Rowman & Littlefield
05/2024
274
Mole
9781538198834
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Introduction
1 The Crying Abuses: Explanations
Restricted China
Stationary China
Despotic China
The Tartars and Their Empire
Not Entirely Unreasonable
Themselves to Blame
Hood-winked
2 The Crying Abuses: Solutions
Visitors Weigh In
Intimidation or Restraint?
At Home
Improving Their Own Situation
Somewhere Else
3 Being There
Challenging the Jesuits
A Peculiar Monopoly
Interesting Evidence
Opinions Grounded upon Experience
The Terms Controversy
Setting the Record Straight
War, Hong Kong, and Beyond
4 Sizing Up China
An Immense and Unparalleled Population
A Horrid Practice
So Extraordinary a Custom
Footbinding and the War to Open China
5 The Opium Debates
Opium Mania
Opium in the Press
The Issues
James Innes
Setting the Record Straight, Again
Opium and War
Epilogue: China Freed
Bibliography
1 The Crying Abuses: Explanations
Restricted China
Stationary China
Despotic China
The Tartars and Their Empire
Not Entirely Unreasonable
Themselves to Blame
Hood-winked
2 The Crying Abuses: Solutions
Visitors Weigh In
Intimidation or Restraint?
At Home
Improving Their Own Situation
Somewhere Else
3 Being There
Challenging the Jesuits
A Peculiar Monopoly
Interesting Evidence
Opinions Grounded upon Experience
The Terms Controversy
Setting the Record Straight
War, Hong Kong, and Beyond
4 Sizing Up China
An Immense and Unparalleled Population
A Horrid Practice
So Extraordinary a Custom
Footbinding and the War to Open China
5 The Opium Debates
Opium Mania
Opium in the Press
The Issues
James Innes
Setting the Record Straight, Again
Opium and War
Epilogue: China Freed
Bibliography
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British colony;British imperial history;Canton;China trade;Chinese tea;Colonialism;Early modern China;Indian opium;Opium War
Introduction
1 The Crying Abuses: Explanations
Restricted China
Stationary China
Despotic China
The Tartars and Their Empire
Not Entirely Unreasonable
Themselves to Blame
Hood-winked
2 The Crying Abuses: Solutions
Visitors Weigh In
Intimidation or Restraint?
At Home
Improving Their Own Situation
Somewhere Else
3 Being There
Challenging the Jesuits
A Peculiar Monopoly
Interesting Evidence
Opinions Grounded upon Experience
The Terms Controversy
Setting the Record Straight
War, Hong Kong, and Beyond
4 Sizing Up China
An Immense and Unparalleled Population
A Horrid Practice
So Extraordinary a Custom
Footbinding and the War to Open China
5 The Opium Debates
Opium Mania
Opium in the Press
The Issues
James Innes
Setting the Record Straight, Again
Opium and War
Epilogue: China Freed
Bibliography
1 The Crying Abuses: Explanations
Restricted China
Stationary China
Despotic China
The Tartars and Their Empire
Not Entirely Unreasonable
Themselves to Blame
Hood-winked
2 The Crying Abuses: Solutions
Visitors Weigh In
Intimidation or Restraint?
At Home
Improving Their Own Situation
Somewhere Else
3 Being There
Challenging the Jesuits
A Peculiar Monopoly
Interesting Evidence
Opinions Grounded upon Experience
The Terms Controversy
Setting the Record Straight
War, Hong Kong, and Beyond
4 Sizing Up China
An Immense and Unparalleled Population
A Horrid Practice
So Extraordinary a Custom
Footbinding and the War to Open China
5 The Opium Debates
Opium Mania
Opium in the Press
The Issues
James Innes
Setting the Record Straight, Again
Opium and War
Epilogue: China Freed
Bibliography
