{"title":"“Soldiers with stiff bodies”: rumors, stereotypes and the Chinese image of the British army during the First Opium War (1839-1842)","authors":"Searle Alaric, Z. Yi","doi":"10.1080/17535654.2020.1759307","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"A curious aspect of the First Opium War was the circulation among Chinese officials of two claims made about British soldiers, instigated by Commissioner Lin Zexu: their uniforms were so tight that...","PeriodicalId":41223,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Modern Chinese History","volume":"26 1","pages":"86-110"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1000,"publicationDate":"2020-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Modern Chinese History","FirstCategoryId":"98","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17535654.2020.1759307","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"HISTORY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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A curious aspect of the First Opium War was the circulation among Chinese officials of two claims made about British soldiers, instigated by Commissioner Lin Zexu: their uniforms were so tight that...