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The Arrow War (1856–60) involved all the world's major powers, and could almost be called a world war because of the global economic and diplomatic issues driving it. For twenty-five years Dr John Wong has been trying to discover the true origins of the war. What began as a study of an alleged insult to the British flag supposedly flying over the boat Arrow led to an analysis of complex Chinese and British diplomacy; of the even more complex Chinese tea and silk exports; of British India's jealously guarded economic strategies and opium monopoly; of cotton supplied to the Lancashire mills by the Americans, who thereby made up their trade deficit with China occasioned by their heavy purchases of tea; of intricate Westminster politics and British global trade; of French pride and cultural priorities; of Russian intrigues and territorial designs; and of America's apparent aloofness and real ambitions.

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Book category Books in English Humanities History Regional & national history

• Full title: Deadly Dreams
• Subtitle: Opium and the Arrow War (1856-1860) in China
• Author: J. Y. Wong
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 576
• EAN: 9780521552554
• ISBN: 0521552559
• ID: 02034891
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 925 g
• Dimensions: 235 × 158 × 40 mm
• Date of publishing: 28. June 1998

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