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- 68
- Transcribed
- 2,267
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
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- First episode
About The History of China
A journey through the 5000 years of history documented by one of the world's oldest continuous civilizations. For all the episodes for free, as well as additional content, please subscribe and/or visit http://thehistoryofchina.wordpress.com.
- Publisher
- Chris Stewart
- Category
- history
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 25 Nov 2013
- Latest episode
- 18 Sept 2026
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#347 - Arrow War 1: The Servants' Entrance
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#347 - Arrow War 1: The Servants' Entrance
Published 18 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] It was the standing insult of the Treaty Port world, the item that made Canton categorically different from Shanghai in foreign eyes. Shanghai, where cooperation had paid everyone. Canton, where refusal had worked. And by the 1850s, the men on the spot had concluded that the lingering question of entry would be settled the next time such an occasion presented itself. No, the boarding of the good ship Arrow and the arrest of her crew was not the cause of the so-called Arrow War. It was an occasion, arriving punctually to men who'd been waiting for one ever since the end of the Opium War, to wring out just a little more. […]
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