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Full referenceMayer, Maisie, “Bagdadi Jewish Merchants in Shanghai and the Opium Trade” (1999)
TypeJournal article
Author(s)Mayer, Maisie
Title“Bagdadi Jewish Merchants in Shanghai and the Opium Trade”
Year1999
JournalJewish Culture and History
Volume2
Number1
Start page58
End page71
LanguageEnglish
SubjectHistory
Keywordssocial; culture; economy; foreigners
AbstractThe opium trade was legal within China between 1858 and 1917. Jewish entrepreneurs who had immigrated to China via India were deeply involved in the trade in this addictive, highly debilitating narcotic drug. Although plying a legitimate trade they were the targets of trenchant criticism, most notably from missionaries. Anti-opium groups spurred on by missionaries protested against the opium trade for reasons of ethics as well as fear that all trade with China might be stopped, as indeed had happened in 1839. This article focuses on the 19th-century background to the opium trade, the anti-opium movement, the British government's attitude to the Baghdadi merchants and the end of the opium trade.
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