{"product_id":"the-opium-war-julia-lovell","title":"The Opium War — Julia Lovell","description":"\u003cp\u003eLovell traces the conflict between Britain and China over the opium trade in the 1840s — a war fought to force open a market for a drug — and its extraordinary afterlife in Chinese political culture. The national narrative of humiliation that the Opium War inaugurated has shaped Chinese foreign policy for a century and a half, and Lovell is one of the few Western historians to take that narrative seriously on its own terms. The book moves between the nineteenth century and the present with considerable skill, and its arguments about the long shadow of colonial violence remain urgently relevant.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"epoch-endorsement\"\u003e'A remarkable book — incisive, original, and beautifully written. Lovell illuminates not just a war but the entire complex of Chinese-Western relations.' — \u003cem\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/em\u003e. 'Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand modern China.' — \u003cem\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Epoch Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53734529859911,"sku":null,"price":12.34,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0967\/9152\/7751\/files\/rn-image_picker_lib_temp_5b7d7738-5320-4ef2-8aa7-aed857226cad.webp?v=1776600099","url":"https:\/\/www.epochbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-opium-war-julia-lovell","provider":"Epoch Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}