Foreign Mud - Couverture rigide

Collis, Maurice

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0571193013 ISBN 13 : 9780571193011

Editeur : Faber & Faber, 1997

Synopsis

This is one of a series of titles first published by Faber between 1930 and 1990, and in a style and format planned with a view to the appearance of the volumes on the bookshelf. Maurice Collis's account of the Opium War was first published in 1946. Opium - "foreign mud" - was smuggled into China in the early-19th century by British and other Western ships while their governments looked the other way. To the merchants it was a fair trade, particularly so because China refused to open up her markets to the world. To the Chinese court, however, it was an outrage: an affront to the dignity of the Celestial Empire by unruly foreign barbarians. War became inevitable.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Foreign Mud is one of the most distinguished of Maurice Collis' works of history. This account of the struggle between the British and Chinese in the Opium War in Canton in the 1830s has a vividness that comes from 20 years of experience in the Far East as a civil servant. 'The story of the Opium War does not lend itself to natural composition; it violates all the established rules of dramatric art; it does not begin at the right moment and it prolongs its end long after the climax has been reached. Collis has handled this intraceable material with surety of touch ... The result is a self-contained narrative, lucid, balanced and creating a untiy of impression ... so lucid, so human, so amusing, and so fair.' Daily Telegraph

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Faber & Faber
• Date d'édition: 1997
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0571193013
• ISBN 13: 9780571193011
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible