Got about 5 minutes in, this video is completely disconnected from any up-to-date scholarship on the subject. Read Imperial Twilight: The Opium War and the End of China's Last Golden Age by Stephen R. Platt for a much better understanding on the opium trade and the First Opium War.
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Got about 5 minutes in, this video is completely disconnected from any up-to-date scholarship on the subject. Read Imperial Twilight: The Opium War and the End of China's Last Golden Age by Stephen R. Platt for a much better understanding on the opium trade and the First Opium War.
Never really understood the phrasing, humiliation of the Qing Empire, yet is commonly treated as if it was a non imperial power that this happened to.