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Phil on Morning Brew talks to historian Julia Lovell on her controversial new book, The Opium War, as she revisits the myths about the war that led to Hong Kong.
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'On the outside, [the foreigners] seem intractable, but inside they are cowardly. . . Although there have been a few ups-and-downs, the situation as a whole is under control.'
In October 1839, a few months after the Chinese Imperial Commissioner, Lin Zexu, dispatched these confident words to his emperor, a cabinet meeting in Windsor voted to fight Britain’s...
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In a time of colonial upheaval, fate has thrown together a truly diverse cast of Indians and Westerners, from a bankrupt Raja to a widowed villager, from an evangelical English opium trader to a mulatto American freedman.
As their old family ties are washed away they, like their historical counterparts, come to view themselves as jahaj-bhais or ship-brothers. An...
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He is a performance poet, librettist, songwriter/musician and self-confessed former drug addict. His book Narcopolis has been shortlisted for the 2012 Man Booker Prize. In conversation with RTHK's Hugh Chiverton, the themes and characters in his tale of opium dens and heroin addiction in Mumbai will be explored. The event was be held at 1.30 pm-3.pm on...
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Shortlisted for the 2012 Man Booker Prize
Jeet Thayil’s luminous debut novel completely subverts and challenges the literary traditions for which the Indian novel is celebrated. This is a book about drugs, sex, death, perversion, addiction, love, and god, and has more in common in its subject matter with the work of William S. Burroughs or Baudelaire than with...
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Indian writer Amitav Ghosh’s Ibis Trilogy began with Sea of Poppies, set at the time of the first Opium War, was shortlisted for the 2008 Booker Prize.
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Amitav Ghosh was joined by Sarah Passmore to talk about his writing.
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Sarah Passmore is joined by Professor Robert Bickers to talk about his new book, The Scramble for China: Foreign Devils in the Qing Empire, 1832-1914.
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Indian author Jeet Thayil tells Phil Whelan about his book, Narcopolis, which illustrates the transformation of Bombay to Mumbai - through the change of opium to heroin. He is one of the shortlisted finalists of the Man Asian Literary Prize.
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Beijing, 2008. The Olympics are coming, the city is rejuvenated, but taxi driver Wang is barely alive. He drives in circles, ferrying passengers around the congested streets. Then one day he finds a letter addressed to him in his cab, and Wang’s gridlocked life is over. Someone is watching him. Someone who claims to be his soulmate who has known him for over a...
