British scholar to find the truth Opium War
According to foreign media reports, now the University of London Birkbeck College professor of modern Chinese history, Lovell has recently launched a conference, this meeting she promoted her latest book, she wrote because of the Opium War, “two for the the same understanding of historical events are so different, “so that people truly understand history.
She began the idea from the initial 1997 visit to China, Nanjing University, she then participated in a six-month Chinese language courses. That year coincided with the nasal spray Hong Kong returned to China. She said: “The time of the Opium War in China’s position very heart of this left me a deep impression. That was my first induction as the British exhausted, if you discuss the details of that war, a lot of work will human sense of shame and embarrassment. ”
Proficient in Chinese Lovell recall that, until further studies at Cambridge University and former history of Chinese language, she investigated the Opium War and the British military weakness of the Chinese-sponsored injustice and brutal war. “At some level, meaning the British people would not think of the war.” She said, can not know now many Chinese people, the war burst in 1839, the UK also showed a lot of opposition sound like more than to Like the war in Iraq. “Opium War” is the naming of the war when a British correspondent reported that the British authorities to dig at the sky. She said: “During the 19th century the British Empire are proud of their Christian worship, therefore, the idea for the opium war is breach of their relative values.”
Lovell spent three years work to complete the book. She said in the book show, in this war, the opium business on the British Empire’s economic and military realities in terms of vital force main. She said: “I hope this book helps readers think of the UK’s pre-history in China, a lot of aspects from the first embarrassing history. The book includes many details of the violence of war and fear. It is not a fair battle the British Empire when the predecessors of the world’s most advanced weapons and ships, while the Qing also use shields, bows and arrows and swords. ”
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