TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pembroke,Michael
TI  - Silk Silver Opium : : the TRADE with CHINA that CHANGED HISTORY 
SN  - 9781761451980
U1  - 382.0951 23
PY  - 2025///]
CY  - Wurundjeri Country ; Collingwood, Victoria : 
PB  - Hardie Grant Books, 
KW  - Opium
KW  - Opium trade
KW  - China
KW  - History
KW  - Foreign relations
KW  - Economic relations
KW  - Western Countries
KW  - Politics and government
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - Silk Silver Opium not only tells the fascinating stories of silk and tea, porcelain, silver and opium, missionaries, mercenaries and trade, but also what became inevitable - war and humiliation. Much about China's modern relationship with the West is the product of its past inter-reactions, conflicts, victories and humiliations. The South China Sea was the place from where the ultimately destructive European sailing ships arrived. The Ryukyu Island chain was the place from where marauding Japanese pirates preyed mercilessly on China's east coast ports. Taiwan was where anti-Qing rebels established a stronghold in the seventeenth century. The story of imperial China's trading relationship with the West is a powerful tale, with clear implications for the future
ER  -