Commissioner Lin and the Opium War

Harvard University Press

1964

xiv, 319 p.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-301) and index.

Sino-British contact under the Old Order -- The rise of the opium trade -- The diplomatic crisis -- The intensified combat over opium -- Commissioner Lin at Canton -- Opium smoke and war clouds -- The coming of the War and the fall of Lin.

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