Re:The Opium Wars Still Shape China’s View of the West
by chewz on Saturday February 03, 2018 @02:31PM
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I recommend reading Opium Wars by Julia Lovell. [1]
To answer your question - main lobbyst behind first Opium War was Scottish opium trader James Matheson [2]. The fortune he had made on selling opium to China had been invested in Rio Tinto[3] - mining company that survived till today.
To answer your question - main lobbyst behind first Opium War was Scottish opium trader James Matheson [2]. The fortune he had made on selling opium to China had been invested in Rio Tinto[3] - mining company that survived till today.
[1]: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12147002-the-opium-war
[2]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Matheson
[3]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Matheson_(industrialist...