Titlebook: Opium, Soldiers and Evangelicals; England‘s 1840-42 Wa Harry G. Gelber Book 2004 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Lim

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978-1-349-51037-5Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2004

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,Fighting and Talking: Elliot 1840–41,By the start of 1840 the military and political manoeuvres were gathering pace. The British had left the factories, the river, and even Macao. They were living on ships off Hong Kong, awaiting troops from India and orders from London. Elliot was busy keeping up morale and dealing with Chinese attempts to send fire-ships against his merchantmen.

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Britain: Evangelicals, Humanitarians and Guilt, or strategic interests were often highly influential. Nevertheless, so far as China and opium were concerned, in both countries the critique of Britain grew. So did a mood of self-criticism, even of guilt.

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The British and Commissioner Lin 1839,ndeed, like other senior personages in China before or since — including, a century later, Mao Zedong — he saw himself not only as an administrator and governor but as a literary figure. A man of sharp intelligence, with an enquiring, perceptive and subtle mind, he was quite clearly a senior member

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