id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt 6d56zw14w2p Benjamin Louis Fischer 'Opium Pushing and Bible Smuggling': Religion and the Cultural Politics of British Imperialist Ambition in China 2008 .txt text/plain 358 12 29 The dissertation argues that the mission in China represents a shift in British thinking about mission and empire, which reflects the achievement of Evangelical hegemony in British culture. In the early decades of the nineteenth century, British missionaries disrupted the century-old tea-trade triangle by their insistence on penetrating the closed Chinese empire. cache/6d56zw14w2p.txt txt/6d56zw14w2p.txt