Dr. Julia Lovell is a lecturer in modern Chinese history at Birkbeck College, University of London. She speaks with Phil over her new non-fiction work The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams and the Making of China, published by Picador.

Julia Lovell – Global Launch of "The Opium War"

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