Chinese Opium Smoker -Twelve Illustrations Showing the Ruin which our Opium Trade with China is bringing upon that Country Incipient opium-smoker (illustration 1).
This illustrated account of the evils of opium smoking, and of British complicity in the trade, was probably written by Benjamin Broomhall (1829-1911), executive director of the China Inland Mission. The legalisation of the opium trade in China in 1860 led to an apparent increase in consumption, and...
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Chinese Opium Smoker -Twelve Illustrations Showing the Ruin which our Opium Trade with China is bringing upon that Country [electronic resource] Incipient opium-smoker (illustration 1). |
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| Other authors: | 程連蘇, 1861-1918, (soo, chung ling, 1861-1918.) |
| Format: | Physical Object |
| Language: | English |
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1877.
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SOAS Digital Library.
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This illustrated account of the evils of opium smoking, and of British complicity in the trade, was probably written by Benjamin Broomhall (1829-1911), executive director of the China Inland Mission. The legalisation of the opium trade in China in 1860 led to an apparent increase in consumption, and to a renewed campaign against the drug by some government officials, and by Protestant missionary groups in China and overseas. -- Although the work claims to have been originally produced by Chinese anti-opium campaigners, it bears a striking similarity to George Cruikshank’s caricatures for the temperance movement, The Bottle (1847) and The Drunkard’s Children (1848). (Text by Tom Tomlinson, from the exhibition catalogue: Objects of instruction : treasures of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Anna Contadini, Editor. London : SOAS, University of London, 2007.) |
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| Other authors: | 程連蘇, 1861-1918, (soo, chung ling, 1861-1918.) |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
1877.
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| Subjects: | |
| Series: |
SOAS Digital Library.
ASC. REGIONS. FORMATS. ARTE. REAS. MISSION. LMS. IASC. ISOAS. R_CHN. |
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China. |