Chinese Opium Smoker -Twelve Illustrations Showing the Ruin which our Opium Trade with China is bringing upon that Country

Material Information

Title:
Chinese Opium Smoker -Twelve Illustrations Showing the Ruin which our Opium Trade with China is bringing upon that Country Once sober gentleman (illustration 3)
Series Title:
Objects of instruction : treasures of SOAS
Creator:
程連蘇, 1861-1918 ( Soo, Chung Ling, 1861-1918 )
Donor:
On permanent loan from the Council for World Mission Archive.
Place of Publication:
London
Publication Date:
Measurements:
H22.4 x W14.3 cm in

Subjects

Subjects / Keywords:
Opium abuse ( lcsh )
Wives ( lcsh )
Abused wives ( lcsh )
亚洲 -- 中国
亞洲 -- 中國
Spatial Coverage:
Asia -- China
Coordinates:
35 x 105

Notes

Abstract:
This illustrated account of the evils of opium smoking, and of British complicity in the trade, was probably written by Benjamin Broomhall (1829-1911), executive director of the China Inland Mission. The legalisation of the opium trade in China in 1860 led to an apparent increase in consumption, and to a renewed campaign against the drug by some government officials, and by Protestant missionary groups in China and overseas. -- Although the work claims to have been originally produced by Chinese anti-opium campaigners, it bears a striking similarity to George Cruikshank’s caricatures for the temperance movement, The Bottle (1847) and The Drunkard’s Children (1848). (Text by Tom Tomlinson, from the exhibition catalogue: Objects of instruction : treasures of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Anna Contadini, Editor. London : SOAS, University of London, 2007.) ( en )
General Note:
Chung Ling Soo was the stage name of the American magician William Ellsworth Robinson (April 2, 1861– March 24, 1918) who is mostly remembered today for his death after a bullet catch trick went wrong.
General Note:
VIAF (name authority) : Soo, Chung Ling, 1861-1918 : 3576066
General Note:
Source: A. Contadini (ed.), Objects of instruction : treasures of the School of Oriental and African Studies. London : SOAS, University of London, 2007. Listed as item number: 113
General Note:
From: Soo, Chung Ling. Chinese Opium Smoker -Twelve Illustrations Showing the Ruin which our Opium Trade with China is bringing upon that Country
General Note:
Number 6 of CMWL C.1/59

Record Information

Source Institution:
SOAS, University of London
Holding Location:
Archives and Special Collections
Rights Management:
All applicable rights reserved by the source institution and holding location.
Resource Identifier:
CMWL C.1/59 ( soas manuscript number )