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    supreme above their own heads of state prohibited entry into Chinese territory. Although foreigners — even on trade ships — were banned from entering China, there was one exception to the rule, the exception was the southeastern region of China, Canton. Foreigners were allowed to trade in the Thirteen Factories district with payments made exclusively in silver. The British began to send ships packed with silver in order to exchange them for tea and porcelain. The only problem was that at the…

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    them were jailed in Canton under vague charges and stayed there for eleven years. Or is it strictly about his travels from China to the western world of a Jesuit missionary. Though Hu’s travelers are no more historically important than the three who were in jail for eleven…

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    After this, the Viceroy of Canton, Lu Kun, created an embargo in British imports. There were many more small arguments between British envoys and Chinese officials following this. Eventually Lin Tse-hsu would be appointed by the emperor to eliminate the opium trade. “A man ahead of…

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    Dim sum is one of my favorite food since it has a lot of varieties of food, including shrimp dumpling, steamed pork, porridge, rice noodles, baozi, and dessert. It has another name in Canton, called “breakfast tea”. For local people, we usually say we will go to “drink breakfast tea” instead of “eat brunch”. Since I was little, my parents always brought me to have dim sum between morning and noon every weekend and met with families and…

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    The teams were from four states-Akron, Canton, Cleveland, and Dayton from Ohio, the Hammond pros and Muncie flyers from Indiana, the Rochester Jeffersons from New York and the name of the Rock Island Independents, Decatur Staleys and Racine Cardinals from Illinois, The name of the league was…

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    In this paper i will be discussing some major events of the taiping rebellion,and the opium wars.Also conditions in china that lead to these wars, and the outcome of both the opium wars and taiping rebellion the first opium war started in(1839-1842) with china trying to ban opium trading. not long after the first opium war the taiping rebellion(civil war) broke out in(1850-1864) in china. ought between qing dynasty and hong xiuquan, when china tried to seek persecution towards a christian sect…

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    Caucasian female living in Perry Township in Canton, Ohio. Perry Township is a small community between Canton, Ohio and Massillon. The client has three children, Brandon, age 6, Brooke, age 4, and Brant, age 2. The children currently live with their father in North Canton, Ohio. Within the last year, she started a new relationship with Bryan, and is now living in his home in Perry Township. Previously, she was living with Brandon, who is father of her 3 children. The client is enrolled…

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    Through my initial research, I observed that the Gulf Coast Olmec culture is generally accepted in the scholarly community as the first Mesoamerican civilization through its display of sociopolitical complexity. However, there remains quite a considerable amount of debate regarding how the Olmec iconography, specifically in regards to Olmec style ceramics, disseminated and interacted with neighbouring regions. Blomster et al. (2005) and Backes et al. (2012) propose that the standardized Olmec…

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    Once opium addiction was becoming a widespread social problem throughout all of China, Lin Tse-Hsu wrote a letter to the British Queen to put an end to this trade. However, she never received the letter. Lin Tse-Hsu then went to Canton to attempt at negotiating with the English merchants to end the importation of opium into China. However, they weren’t cooperative, so he destroyed all of their opium, which was followed by immediate military action. This is when the first Opium war…

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