The Opium War
Drugs, Dreams and the Making of China. The Orwell Prize 2012, Nominiert: Cundill Prize 2012
(Sprache: Englisch)
Lively, erudite and meticulously researched' Literary Review
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Lively, erudite and meticulously researched' Literary Review
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'A gripping read as well as an important one.' Rana Mitter, GuardianIn October 1839, Britain entered the first Opium War with China. Its brutality notwithstanding, the conflict was also threaded with tragicomedy: with Victorian hypocrisy, bureaucratic fumblings, military missteps, political opportunism and collaboration. Yet over the past hundred and seventy years, this strange tale of misunderstanding, incompetence and compromise has become the founding episode of modern Chinese nationalism.
Starting from this first conflict, The Opium War 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.
'Lively, erudite and meticulously researched' Literary Review
'An important reminder of how the memory of the Opium War continues to cast a dark shadow.' Sunday Times
Autoren-Porträt von Julia Lovell
Julia Lovell teaches modern Chinese history at Birkbeck College, University of London. She is the author of The Great Wall: China Against the World and The Politics of Cultural Capital: China's Quest for a Nobel Prize in Literature and writes on China for the Guardian, Independent and The Times Literary Supplement. Her many translations of modern Chinese fiction include, most recently, Lu Xun's The Real Story of Ah-Q, and Other Tales of China.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Julia Lovell
- Altersempfehlung: Ab 18 Jahre
- 2012, 480 Seiten, Maße: 13 x 19,5 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Picador
- ISBN-10: 0330457489
- ISBN-13: 9780330457484
- Erscheinungsdatum: 02.05.2012
Sprache:
Englisch
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