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The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams And The Making Of China REP412 was transformed into an ultra-chicOn the outside, [the foreigners] seem intractable, but inside they are cowardly Although there have been a few ups and downs, the situation as a whole is under control.' In October 1839, a few months after the Chinese Imperial Commissioner, Lin Zexu, dispatched these confident words to his emperor, a cabinet meeting in Windsor voted to fight Britain's first Opium War (1839 42) with China. The conflict turned out to be rich in tragicomedy: in