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China

China. In the 1700s , China enjoyed a favorable balance of trade. The Power of Opium. By 1779, the British East India Company was importing opium into China Within a generation, opium addiction in China became widespread. Mandarin with Opium Pipe.

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China

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  1. China In the 1700s, China enjoyed a favorable balance of trade.

  2. The Power of Opium • By 1779, the British East India Company was importing opium into China • Within a generation, opium addiction in China became widespread Mandarin with Opium Pipe

  3. The East India Company’s opium factory stacking room

  4. China and Britain Clash over Opium In 1839, a Chinese official demanded that the opium trade in Guangzhou (Canton) stop. The British refused, and war ensued. Chinese unloading opium from a British ship

  5. The Opium War: 1839–1842 The British navy attacks

  6. The Treaty of Nanjing Britain gained • Control of Hong Kong • The right to trade in five major cities • Extraterritoriality • The legalization of opium in China The signing of the Treaty of Nanjing aboard the British ship Cornwallis

  7. Treaty Ports

  8. The Open Door Policy • Turmoil in China • “Spheres of influence” • “Open Door” policy formulated by U.S. Secretary of State John Hay • No nations formally accepted Hay’s proposal, but they didn’t counter the Open Door policy’s provisions either U.S. Secretary of State John Hay

  9. Catholic cathedral in Shanghai

  10. The Boxer Rebellion, 1899 American, Japanese, and British troops storming Beijing

  11. The Boxer Protocol • China was forced to sign the Boxer Protocol • Required to pay damages to Europeans • Forced to allow foreign soldiers to live in Beijing Signing of the Boxer Protocol

  12. Chinese Nationalism Nationalism increased in China as groups fought to not only rid China of foreigners, but to end centuries of imperial rule.

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