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In early November, 172 years ago, the First Opium War erupted between China and Britain. Julia Lovell teaches Chinese history at Birkbeck College, London, and has authored The Opium War, an account of the first Sino-British War through 1839-42. Lovell spoke with Kim Arora about the conflict - whose effects can be felt even now.

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