China as “Victim”? The Opium War That Wasn’t

China as “Victim”? The Opium War That Wasn’t by Harry G. Gelber Visiting Scholar, Center for European Studies Harvard University hgelber@utas.edu.au 1/601 Sandy Bay Road Sandy Bay, Tasmania 7005, Australia Abstract The 1840-42 Anglo-Chinese war (the so-called “Opium War”) is almost universally believed to have been

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