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How did the Chinese view the European opium trade?

How did the Chinese view the European opium trade?. The Opium Wars. Getting Tough on Opium. The number 150 lb. chests of the narcotic being imported rising from 9,708 in 1820 to 35,445 in 1835. Lin Zexu, tough commission in Canton

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How did the Chinese view the European opium trade?

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  1. How did the Chinese view the European opium trade?

  2. The Opium Wars

  3. Getting Tough on Opium • The number 150 lb. chests of the narcotic being imported rising from 9,708 in 1820 to 35,445 in 1835. • Lin Zexu, tough commission in Canton • 1839: Seize drugs, arrest, burn, dump in ocean & close ports to foreigners • Dissolved in salt, water, lime and dumped into ocean • 1840, British Indian Army sent to China

  4. The First Opium War (1839-1842) • British Indian Army easily took Canton, sailed up Yangzti and took tax barges • The Chinese had no choice but to surrender

  5. This war with China . . . really seems to me so wicked as to be a national sin of the greatest possible magnitude, and it distresses me very deeply. Cannot any thing be done by petition or otherwise to awaken men's minds to the dreadful guilt we are incurring? I really do not remember, in any history, of a war undertaken with such combined injustice and baseness. Ordinary wars of conquest are to me far less wicked, than to go to war in order to maintain smuggling, and that smuggling consisting in the introduction of a demoralizing drug, which the government of China wishes to keep out, and which we, for the lucre of gain, want to introduce by force; and in this quarrel are going to burn and slay in the pride of our supposed superiority. — Thomas Arnold to W. W. Hull, March 18, 1840

  6. Unequal Treaties • Treaty of Nanjing • Emperor paid for opium, give away Hong Kong, open ports • Extraterritoriality

  7. Second Opium War (1856-1860) • Illegal search led to siege of Canton and moved up to Peking

  8. Unequal Treaties • Treaty of Tianjin • Most favored nation status, could share with other nations • Embassy in Beijing • 10 new ports • Permission for foreigners to travel in the country (missionaries included) • Foreigners spread faith and hold property

  9. Spheres of Influence

  10. Others Join the Game • Sino-Japanese War (1895) • Gets Taiwan (Formusa) • American “Open Door Policy”

  11. Impacts of Imperialism?

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