January 20, 1841. A desperate Chinese diplomat cedes Hong Kong to England in the hope of ending the massacre ... But it’s lost time. China finds it’s too much, England finds it’s not enough.
The worst is yet to come.

Erratum: Opium is the liquid that seeps along small incisions on the capsule of the sleeping poppy, not the seeds.

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With: Laurent Turcot, professor of history at the University of Quebec in Trois-Rivières, Canada
Script: François de Grandpré
Editing: Dead Will
Music: Epidemic Sound

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For further:
L'Histoire, special issue on the opium wars, January 2020.
C. Déry, Diplomacy, rhetoric and gunboats. Relations between China and England, from the Macartney Embassy to the Opium War, 1793-1842, Quebec, Presses de l'Université Laval, 2007.
W. Travis Hanes III, Frank Sanello, Opium Wars. The Addiction of One Empire and the Corruption of Another, Sourcebooks, 2004.
Amar Farooqui, Smuggling as Subversion: Colonialism, Indian Merchants, and the Politics of Opium, 1790–1843, Lexington Books, 2005.
Miron, Jeffrey A. & Feige, Chris, “The Opium Wars: Opium Legalization and Opium Consumption in China” Applied Economics Letters. 15 (12): 2008, p. 911–913
Lovell, Julia. The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams, and the Making of Modern China, 2011.
Wong, John Y. Deadly Dreams: Opium, Imperialism, and the Arrow War (1856–1860) in China, Cambridge University Press, 2002.

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