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Home: By Time Period: Nineteenth Century: Wars and Conflicts: Opium Wars
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- Ch'ing China: The Opium Wars
"By the 1830's, the English had become the major drug-trafficking criminal organization in the world". Discussion of the causes and effects of these wars.
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- Letter of Advice to Queen Victoria
"The wealth of China is used to profit the barbarians ... by what right do they then in return use the poisonous drug to injure the Chinese people?". Full text of a letter written by Commisioner Lin in the lead up to the war.
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- The Opium War
Links and discussion forum on both the war itself and a 1997 movie based upon it, from the DigitalChina/Harvard project.
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