The Chinese Opium Wars

Author/Contributor(s):	Beeching, Jack
Publisher:	Mariner Books
Date:	4/6/1977
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

An enlightening account of a notorious period in nineteenth-century imperialism, when an effort by the Chinese government to stamp out the country's profitable opium trade resulted in a series of conflicts known as the Opium Wars. Index; illustrations and map.