Book 8 on The China Project Ultimate China Bookshelf – Maurice Collis’s Foreign Mud (1946)

Posted: March 4th, 2023 | No Comments »

Maurice Collis’s Foreign Mud (1946) is book 8 on my Ultimate China Bookshelf for The China Project. Click here.

It’s essentially a historical recreation of the events (or “imbroglio,” as the British press often referred to it) surrounding the illegal trade of opium in Canton during the 1830s and the Opium Wars.

To understand China’s “outrage” and subsequent negotiating stances in trade disputes, we all need to understand the original — and nastiest — trade dispute of them all: the Opium Wars.

(Many thanks to Peter Behr for the illustration)

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