...This chapter considers the 1843 revolt from the perspective of the trans-Patkai region and possible connections with the Opium Wars. It explores the political and cultural contexts of Singpho-Jinghpaw interaction with a wider world, and concludes that the spread of gumlao revolt...

... changed from the first Chinese encounter with the outside world up until the first stage of modern mass politics. Western political thought had an impact on China after the Opium Wars in the 19th century. Japanese culture also exerted an influence. The early 20th century was a time of great upheaval...

...This chapter takes three historical moments—the opium wars, the ‘war on drugs’, and the ‘war on terror’, and uses these episodes to demonstrate the various ways in which interests over opium are caught up in, interrelated with, and co-productive of, international legal regimes. In particular...

... colonialism Khama III BamaNgwato king London opium traffic Opium Wars Rhodes Cecil South Africa temperance movement British East India Company Durban Gujarat Johannesburg liquor traffic Natal vegetarianism Victoria Queen of England colonial alcohol discourse immigrants Indian Immigration...

... & Co. By 1835, Davidson-Dent bowed out of the partnership to form the Union Insurance Society of Canton on its own. In the era prior to the Opium Wars, Canton Insurance and Union Insurance were the only foreign insurers in China. Foreign insurers found it difficult to handle day-to-day operations...

... and in what ways China has changed from the first Chinese first encounter with the outside world up until the first stage of modern mass politics. Western political thought had an impact on China after the Opium Wars in the 19th century. Japanese culture also exerted an influence. The early 20th century...

...2008 The idea that China's culture is tied up with its place in the modern world has persisted since the Opium Wars. Chinese culture is highly valued around the world in terms of literature, films, artists, and ideas. The desire to find a culture that is both modern and derived from Chinese...

... of Darkness Ma Meyrick Kew Pagoda Limehouse Nights Rabindranath Tagore Opium Wars Thomas De Quincey Ebenezer Howard Behavioural trends in post-war London, as Douglas Goldring, former Vorticist associate and man-about-town recalled, encompassed ‘co-educationists, Morris-dancers, vegetarians...

...This chapter shows that the vast majority of Chinese immigrants to the United States in the nineteenth century came from the Guangdong province in southeastern China. In the mid-nineteenth century, this region of China experienced the ravages of the Opium Wars, internal rebellions, and natural...

... of Chuenpee D’Aguilar George British Army Elliot Charles First Opium War Guangzhou Canton Lin Zexu Qing dynasty Qishan Royal Navy food Kellett Island land military and naval Murray Barracks Murray Battery Qiying Stanley Treaty of Nanjing Nanking War Office Zhenjiang Lyemun China Station...

... ports throughout China's eastern coast? The answer to these questions can be found in a conflict initially between the British (and ultimately the French, Russians, and Americans) and the Chinese in the mid-nineteenth century: the Opium Wars, two wars that had roots in late eighteenth-century China...

... China was dominated by foreign powers in the two Opium Wars in the 19^th century and how Christianity began to take root in China. Christianity in China Holmes Rev James Landrum Holmes Sallie Little Jimo Shandong Wong Chin Foo Zhifu Board of Foreign Missions Southern Baptist Convention...

... autobiography gender transpacific and global US literatures China Trade Opium Wars finance affect queerness and national time Emily Hahn George Santayana John Jacob Astor; a name which, I admit, I love to repeat, for it hath a rounded and orbicular sound to it, and rings like unto bullion. narrator...

...In the first of two historical chapters, this chapter focuses on the deep roots of drug prohibition in the nineteenth-century Opium Wars fought between China and Britain. It begins by reviewing recent work in global history which argues for a recentring of Asia and the East in the long history...

... and shared insights on Chinese polity and character. The chapter recounts that the Opium Wars had opened new ports and transformed Sino-American relations, and it describes William's audiences, who were hungry for information on economic opportunities and the spread of Christianity. The chapter also points...

...Hongkongers in the British Armed Forces, 1860–1997. Kwong Chi Man, Oxford University Press. © Kwong Chi Man 2022. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780192845740.003.0002 The second chapter covers the period from the establishment of the Canton Coolie Corps during the Second Opium War to the 1880s...

...China from the Ruins of Athens and Rome: Classics, Sinology, and Romanticism, 1793–1938. Chris Murray, Oxford University Press (2020). © Chris Murray. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198767015.001.0001 The Second Opium War concluded in 1860 with Anglo-French forces looting and sacking...

...The USS Saginaw was a Civil War gunboat that served in Pacific and Asian waters between 1860 and 1870. During this decade, the crew witnessed the trade disruptions of the Opium Wars, the Taiping Rebellion, the transportation of Confederate sailors to Central America, the French...

...In the decades before and after the First Opium War (1839-1842), the US missionary Reverend David Abeel laid out a sense of “South-Eastern Asian” for US readers of Journal of a Residence in China, and the Neighboring Countries, from 1829 to 1833 (1834). His phrase focuses multi...

...After the Opium Wars and the imposition of treaties, the Chinese Catholic church moved from being persecuted to being protected by foreign powers. Foreign law was implemented as foreign devotions were introduced. These were especially, but not only, French in origin given the large presence...