Table of Contents
Introduction
1 The Crying Abuses: Explanations
Restricted China
Stationary China
Despotic China
The Tartars and Their Empire
Not Entirely Unreasonable
Themselves to Blame
Hood-winked
2 The Crying Abuses: Solutions
Visitors Weigh In
Intimidation or Restraint?
At Home
Improving Their Own Situation
Somewhere Else
3 Being There
Challenging the Jesuits
A Peculiar Monopoly
Interesting Evidence
Opinions Grounded upon Experience
The Terms Controversy
Setting the Record Straight
War, Hong Kong, and Beyond
4 Sizing Up China
An Immense and Unparalleled Population
A Horrid Practice
So Extraordinary a Custom
Footbinding and the War to Open China
5 The Opium Debates
Opium Mania
Opium in the Press
The Issues
James Innes
Setting the Record Straight, Again
Opium and War
Epilogue: China Freed
Bibliography