The Opium War, 1840-1842

by Fay, Peter Ward

• ISBN13: 9780807847145
• ISBN10: 0807847143
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-03-01
• Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr

Summary

This book tells the fascinating story of the 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 process that for almost a century thereafter distinguished western relations with this quarter of the globe--the process that is loosely termed the "opening of China." Originally published by UNC Press in 1975, Peter Ward Fay's study was the first to treat extensively the opium trade from the point of production in India to the point of consumption in China and the first to give both Protestant and Catholic missionaries their due; it remains the most comprehensive account of the first Opium War through western eyes. In a new preface, Fay reflects on the relationship between the events described in the book and Hong Kong's more recent history.

Table of Contents

PREFACE TO THE PAPERBACK EDITION	ix	(10)
PREFACE	xix	(2)
INTRODUCTION	xxi	(4)
LIST OF CHARACTERS	xxv
PART ONE The Old China Trade	3	(64)
1 Papaver Somniferum	3	(12)
2 Canton and Macao	15	(14)
3 Managing the Barbarians	29	(12)
4 The Opium Traffic	41	(12)
5 The End of the Company	53	(14)
PART TWO Christ and Opium	67	(146)
6 The Napier Fizzle	67	(13)
7 The Protestant Mission	80	(18)
8 The Catholic Mission	98	(12)
9 A Rising Tide	110	(18)
10 Peking in Earnest	128	(14)
11 Lin and the Twenty Thousand Chests	142	(20)
12 We Won't Go Back!	162	(18)
13 India and England Take Notice	180	(16)
14 The Coming of the War	196	(17)
PART THREE The War	213	(162)
15 The First Expedition	213	(15)
16 At the Peiho	228	(9)
17 The Blockade and the Barrier	237	(12)
18 Chusan	249	(12)
19 Up the River to Canton	261	(22)
20 The City Spared	283	(13)
21 San-yuan-li	296	(12)
22 A Winter of Waiting	308	(14)
23 Hongkong	322	(17)
24 The Yangtze Campaign	339	(17)
25 China Opened	356	(19)
APPENDIX: Calcutta Opium Sales	375	(2)
NOTES	377	(10)
A NOTE ON SOURCES	387	(8)
INDEX	395