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16 Cards in this Set
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Canton System (1760-1842)
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-Commerce was limited by the Canton System
-it was called this because under it trade with China under foreign nations became confined to a single port called Canton (Guangzhou). -Britain forced China to abandon it to open doors to west (spurred by opium war) |
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Cohong
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an association of firms established to deal with foreigners
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East India Company
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had monopoly over trade between England and China
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Manchu
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regime well past its prime before the outbrake of the war
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Qianlong
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-fifth emperor of manchu qing dynasty
-successful military leader -patron of the arts |
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country trade(rs)
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-england, india, and china connected through this
-biggest chinese import = cotton. not enough to balance tea going to britain... then OPIUM -later, country trade eradicated which made opium flow even greater |
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opium
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-britain started selling this to china
-chinese got addicted, consumption skyrocketed, and silver started flowing back into britain |
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Macao
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-portuguese port where lord napier retreated to
-he violated chinese regulations by staying here, and trade was cut off |
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Lin Zexu
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-arrived in canton as imperial comissioner
-responsibility= stamping out drug trade once and for all -successful! foreigners surrendered all opium -BUT england wouldnt sign bond not to trade opium in the future |
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Amory [Xiamen]
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-china's main port for exporting tea
-treaty port -british blockaded canton and they(?) were shot at in amory while trying to deliver a letter of truce -last phase of war = britain occupying amory |
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Qishan
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-he replaced zexu (who was exiled because of his failure in stopping the first opium war)
-signed document that gave hong kong to britain and reopened canton in (1841) -he was exiled too |
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hong kong
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-lost to britain by qishan
-developed into international port |
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treaty of nanjing
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-ended war, china vanquished by west
first of Unequal Treaties -end of canton system, 5 ports opened to western trade, paid indemnity, chinese lost ability to set own tariffs |
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Treaty of Bogue
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-legal jurisdiction settled by this
-established extraterritoriality and "most-favored nation" status |
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extraterritoriality
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the right of british subjects to be tried under british law in china
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"most-favored nation" status
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obliged China to grant the same privileges to Britain that it provided to any other nation in the future.
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