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Creators of Modern China (British Museum) - 100 Lives from Empire to Republic 1796-1912 by Jessica Harrison-Hall (Editor); Julia Lovell (Editor)
$60.00 AUD
Category: Asian
Discover the stories of 100 women and men whose activities in the 19th century laid the foundations of modern China. This book sprang from a simple but original ambition: to provide an understanding - told through the lives of 100 significant individuals - of how China transformed from dynastic empire ...Show more
Maoism: A Global History by Julia Lovell
$35.00 AUD
Category: Asian
Since the heyday of Mao Zedong, there has never been a more crucial time to understand Maosim.Although to Western eyes it seems that China has long abandoned the utopian turmoil of Maoism in favour of authoritarian capitalism, Mao and his ideas remain central to the People? Republic and the legitimacy o ...Show more
The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams and the Making of China by Julia Lovell
$35.00 AUD
Category: Asian
Secondhand. In the 1800s, Britain was making a mint selling Indian opium to China. In return, they were buying tea, silks and ceramics. When eventually China decided that the drug trade was ruining her people, the British declared war, declaring China 'protectionist', 'backwards-looking' and 'superstit ...Show more
The Opium War - Drugs, Dreams, and the Making of Modern China by Julia Lovell
$35.00 AUD
Category: Asian
In October 1839, a Windsor cabinet meeting votes to begin the first Opium War against China. Bureaucratic fumbling, military missteps, and a healthy dose of political opportunism and collaboration followed. Rich in tragicomedy, The Opium War explores the disastrous British foreign-relations move that be ...Show more
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