by PeterWardFay (Author)
This work tells the story of the first Opium 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 ""opening of China"".
Format: Paperback
Pages: 440
Edition: New edition
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 31 Mar 1998
ISBN 10: 0807847143
ISBN 13: 9780807847145