Opium, Soldiers and Evangelicals

This book questions the universal belief that England''s 1840-42 war with China was an ''Opium War''. What really worried London was ''insults to the crown'', the claim of a dilapidated and corrupt China to be superior to everyone, threats to British men and women and seizure of British property, plus the wish to expand and free trade everywhere. It was only much later that general Chinese resentm...