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A 5 page essay that gives an overview of Arthur Waley's text on the First Opium War. Waley points out that other books written on the Chinese Opium Wars do not give adequate attention to the Chinese official most involved in the First Opium War, which was Lin Tse-hsu, who was sent by the Emperor in 1839 to suppress the opium traffic coming illegally into the country. Using primary sources, Waley discusses Lin's career. No additional sources cited.
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tend to be interpreted purely from a European perspective. One such are of historical scholarship that has been frequently overlooked, according to historian Arthur Waley, are the conflicts between Western
powers and China in the nineteenth century, the Opium Wars. In his text The Opium Wars Through Chinese Eyes (1958) Waley points out that other books written on
the Chinese Opium Wars, contemporarily with this text, do not give adequate attention to the Chinese official most involved in the First Opium War, which was Lin Tse-su. This Chinese
commissioner who was sent by the Emperor in 1839 to suppress the opium traffic coming illegally into the country (Waley 13). Waleys text offers a detailed account of Lin
Tse-hsus career, from his arrival in Canton to his departure on May 3, 1841, under sentence of exile to Turkestan, after the First Opium War. What is unique about Waleys
text is that the sources from which Waley takes his text are Chinese - official documents from Commissioner Lin, letters and diaries. Previous scholarship had virtually ignored Chinese sources and
relied solely on British observations and reports from this period. The importation of opium into China and the smoking of opium were both strictly illegal under Chinese law. However,
the opium trade was of pivotal importance to British Imperialism. The British smuggling of opium, which was grown in India, turned a sizeable British trading deficit with China into a
substantial surplus that paid for British tea imports from China. Additionally, the opium trade served to underwrite the cost of British imperialism in India, both the manufacture of goods and
the cost of governance over the subcontinent. By the time that Lin Tse-hsu was sent to Canton, the Chinese government was very concerned over the outflow of Chinese silver out
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