Fw: H-ASIA: Member pub/book launch Opium War: Drugs, Dreams & the Making of China, by Julia Lovell

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From: "Frank Conlon" <conlon@U.WASHINGTON.EDU>
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Subject: H-ASIA: Member pub/book launch Opium War: Drugs, Dreams & the
Making of China, by Julia Lovell

> H-ASIA
> September 11, 2001
>
> Member's publication and invitation to book launch, London, 15 September
> 2011:
> _The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams and the Making of China_
> by Julia Lovell
> ************************************************************************
> From: Julia Lovell <j.lovell@bbk.ac.uk>
>
> Dear H-Asia members,
>
> I am pleased to announce the publication of my new book, _The Opium War:
> Drugs,
> Dreams and the Making of China_, in the UK.
>
>
> _The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams and the Making of China_
> by Julia Lovell
> (London: Picador, 2011)
> With 56 illustrations, 5 maps.
> Hardback 458 Pages
> ISBN 9780330457477
>
> Publisher's description:
>
> Beginning with the dramas of the war itself, Julia Lovell explores its
> background, causes and consequences and, through this larger narrative,
> interweaves the curious stories of opium's promoters and attackers. _The
> Opium
> War_ is both the story of modern China – starting from this first conflict
> with
> the West – and an analysis of the country's contemporary self-image. It
> explores how China's national myths mould its interactions with the
> outside
> world, how public memory is spun to serve the present; and how delusion
> and
> prejudice have bedevilled its relationship with the modern West.
>
>
> Table of Contents:
>
> Introduction
>
> 1. Opium and China
>
> 2. Daoguang's Decision
>
> 3. Canton Spring
>
> 4. Opium and Lime
>
> 5. The First Shots
>
> 6. 'An Explanatory Declaration'
>
> 7. Sweet-Talk and Sea-Slug
>
> 8. Qishan's Downfall
>
> 9. The Siege of Canton
>
> 10. The UnEnglished Englishman
>
> 11. Xiamen and Zhoushan
>
> 12. A Winter in Suzhou
>
> 13. The Fight for Qing China
>
> 14. The Treaty of Nanjing
>
> 15. Peace and War
>
> 16. The Yellow Peril
>
> 17. The National Disease
>
> 18. Conclusion
>
> For further information:
> http://www.panmacmillan.com/titles/displayPage.asp?PageTitle=Individual%20Title
> &BookID=408067
>
> If you are able to come, a book launch will be held at Asiahouse, 63 New
> Cavendish Street, London, W16 7LP, on 15 September at 6.45pm. A discussion
> will
> be followed by a drinks reception.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Julia Lovell
> Department of History, Classics and Archaeology
> Birkbeck College
> University of London
> Malet Street
> WC1E 7HX
>
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