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took advantage of it. Eventually, this trade became unbeneficial for China yet the British were unwilling to end such profitable interactions. This led to the Opium War. Some of the primary causes included the establishment of opium as one of the most profitable trade items, the belief that the British were being immoral by selling opium to China, and the belief that China 's actions to support prohibition were unjust, but the social disputes were the most…

The First Opium War took place between Great Britain and China from 1839-1842 over Great Britain’s right to trade opium, and to a lesser extent to preserve international trade in Asian Continent. While the war itself is interesting, several significant economic insights can be obtained by observing how the economic conditions of the time brought about war. At the turn of the 18th Century, China saw itself as the best country in the world. They were almost completely self-sufficient and had been…

his concerns about the ill effects of Opium trade on Chinese society and put an end to Opium trade as his King wants. As a Chinese Commissioner he tried to make Queen Victoria aware of the widespread social problems occurring because of opium addiction. He asked Queen to be the leader and put an end to the opium trade. Chinese emperor lost his son of an overdose and Lin Tse-Hue argued that seducing Chinese people by smuggling opium is wrong since smoking opium is banned in Britain. Answer 2:…

I was unaware of the fact that the Romans had such a huge impact on the maritime trade. I knew that they had boats that were capable; but I had never realized the full extent of their impact. It is interesting how quickly the Indian culture icked up the trade as well. The shipbuilding occurring in India is unlike others and the insight that they have to possess in order to build them without sketches and only a vision is something I highly respect. Also the insight into the patterns of the…

Podcast Critique: The China History Podcast: “The Opium War” Laszlo Montgomery’s podcast, The China History Podcast: “The Opium War” discusses the background, causes and effects of the First Opium War, which lasted from 1839 to 1842 and ended with the first of the “unequal treaties”, the Treaty of Nanjing, which forced China to cede Hong Kong and several harbors to the British Empire. The podcast has one speaker and is primarily informational with an informal tone. One event that Montgomery…

In the late Qing dynasty (1644-1911), many missionaries came to China with Western ideas following the invasion by Western powers such as British imperialists. Therefore, many Chinese students and intellectuals inevitably came into contact with Western techniques, religious ideas, and history. However, there always have been many differences between the original European ideas and the Chinese understanding of them. Under the hegemonic power of western civilization, Chinese scholar Kang Youwei…

that we were ever young; / It is to add, immured/ In the hot prison of the present, month/ To month with weary pain” (Arnold 21-25). Similar to Dorian Gray, the speaker would do anything to stay young and beautiful, aware of the better life one can live in society. During the late Victorian Era, there was an immense pressure put upon people to maintain their beauty. Aestheticism was an ongoing movement where individuals only had a value in society if they had a youthful appearance. Pressure to…

Miss Julie is naturalistic play written by August Strindberg in 1888. A naturalistic piece is a more extreme form of realism that is defined as “An avant-garde movement, which flourished between 1880 and 1914, that portrayed heredity and environmental factors as the primary causes of human behavior through the accurate rendition of external realities,” explains editor Tobin Nellhaus. Miss Julie contains these naturalistic elements as it takes place in real time and focuses heavily on survival of…

problem grew due to the British illegal trade in opium. In the year 1839, the new imperial commissioner Lin Tze-hsu came to Canton and took away twenty thousand chests of opium from the British. More disagreements came, especially after the British refused to give over to Chinese authorities a sailor charged for killing a Chinese man, this all started the armed naval confrontation in November 1839. This began the beginning of the first of the Opium Wars, which resulted in the Chinese defeat and…

agreed on. A lot of countries trade goods and that assists the country because they grant others what they need in exchange of what we need. China was an enormous part of this China helped for trade to be achievable. It was challenging a war called the Opium War that happened because they were trading a drug called opium.This started trade , it probably wasn't a good idea to trade drugs but it lead to a good start. When Emperor Daoguang found out about the trade he told Britain to give them the…