The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams, and the Making of Modern China — How Conflict Becomes Memory
The Opium War ended in 1842, but the system of memory built around it continues to shape international perception.
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.
Using The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams, and the Making of Modern China by Julia Lovell as our lens, this episode investigates the economic, institutional, and informational systems that pushed Britain and Qing China into conflict.
Britain’s trade deficit, Indian opium production, Chinese demand, imperial revenue, private merchant pressure, Qing prohibition, diplomatic failure, and overwhelming British…
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