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The origins of Hong Kong in the opium wars and the opium trade- William Jardin and James Matheson of Jardin Matheson & Co
01/12/2015
Foreign Secretary Palmerston negotiated the Treaty of Nanking in 1842 giving England possession of Hong Kong for her commercial interests. A new book on the opium wars "Opium and the Empire," focusses on the role of two Scottish traders Jardine and Matheson in the opium trade carried out on he black market which paid for the shipping expenses for tea and silks brought back from China. It was the confiscation of opium from ships owned by their firm which led to the first Opium War. Walden points to the self delusion of these traders with huge commercial interests in the British Empire who even banned whisky in their areas, used a missionary for a translator, and pretended that the opium was only used by the upper classes in China like tea and whisky.
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