Opium and Empire: The Lives and Careers of William Jardine and James Matheson
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In 1832 William Jardine and James Matheson established what would
become the greatest British trading company in East Asia in the
nineteenth century. After the termination of the East India
Company's monopoly in the tea trade, Jardine, Matheson & Company's
aggressive marketing strategies concentrated on the export of teas
and the import of opium, sold offshore to Chinese smugglers.
Jardine and Matheson, recognized as giants on the scene at Macao,
Canton, and Hong Kong, have often been depicted as one-dimensional
villains whose opium commerce was ruthless and whose imperial drive
was insatiable. In Opium and Empire, Richard Grace explores the
depths of each man, their complicated and sometimes inconsistent
internal workings, and their achievements and failures. He details
their decades-long journeys between Britain and China, their
business strategies and standards of conduct, and their
inventiveness as gentlemanly capitalists. The commodities they
marketed also included cotton, rice, textile goods, and silks and
they functioned as agents for clients in India, Britain, Singapore,
and Australia. During the First Opium War Jardine was in London
giving advice to Lord Palmerston, while Matheson was detained under
house arrest at Canton in the spring of 1839, an incident which
helped prompt the armed British response. Moving beyond the
caricatures of earlier accounts, Opium and Empire tells the story
of two Scotsmen whose lives reveal a great deal about the type of
tough-minded men who expanded the global markets of Victorian
Britain and played major roles in changing the course of modern
history in East Asia.
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