The India-China Opium Trade in the Nineteenth Century Book

	Preface	1
	Introduction: Clearing the Decks	5
1	Running Great Risks for Great Rewards	21
2	A Stream of Wealth: Opium, India and China	31
3	The Rise of the Great Trading Houses	57
4	Ships of the Opium Trade	75
5	The Opium Wars	99
6	The Heat of Battle	119
7	Pirates of the South China Sea	131
8	Typhoons, Monsoons and Hazards to Navigation	151
9	The Twilight of the Opium Trade	169
10	Legacies of the Opium Trade	185
App. I	A Modern Recipe for "Country Captain"	197
App. II	Falcon and Her Crew	199
App. III	Antelope and Her Crew	205
App. IV	Excerpts from "The Opium War"	207
App. V	Selected Wade-Giles/Hanyu Pinyin Equivalents	209
	Bibliography	211
	Index	221