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The Opium Wars

by Captivating History Book 8 in the Asian Military History series.

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The Opium Wars examines the nineteenth-century conflicts in which Britain and other Western powers forced Qing China to accept new commercial and diplomatic arrangements. It explains the opium trade, the First Opium War, the Treaty of Nanjing and the later war that ended with further concessions and the occupation of Beijing. The book places the fighting within the wider crisis of Qing authority and the beginning of the unequal-treaty system that profoundly affected modern Chinese history.

Historical Periods

Opium Wars1839–1860 CE

Genres

Court & Political Fiction

Historical people

Empress Dowager Cixi1835–1908

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