剧情简介：Merchants of War and Peace challenges conventional arguments that the major driving forces of the First Opium War were the infamous opium smuggling trade, the defence of British national honour, and cultural conflicts between ‘progressive’ Britain and ‘backward’ China. Instead, it argues that the war was started by a group of British merchants in the Chinese port of Canton in t...(展开全部)
作者：Song-Chuan Chen
出版社：Hong Kong University Press
ISBN：9789888390564
