Opium Wars

The Boxer Uprising of 1898-1900 , is a peasant movement which was doomed to fail from its conception primarily due to its divided and leaderless structure, was a reaction to a series of factors, most of the factors were caused by western imperialsm and Japanese imperialism and the weak and again also caused by divided Qing government. One of the most important factors for this rebellion was arguably the western religious influence in china. The rebells as the western called the rebels the…

During the Three Kingdoms Period (57 BCE - 668 CE), Korea was divided between the Koguryo, Paekche and Silla. The Koguryo kingdom (37 BCE) stretching from the northern Korean Peninsula to Manchuria, was the first kingdom to adopt Buddhism in China. In the southwestern part of the peninsula, the Paekche kingdom (18 BCE) ruled and were in constant rivalry with the other two kingdoms of the period. The Silla Kingdom, which was established first in 57 BCE, was most powerful of the three and played a…

Imperialism is the imposition of one way of life on another. One example of this occurred in China, where Britain, one of the world superpowers at the time, traded the addictive drug opium with the Chinese people. When China requested that they halt the trade, Britain refused and the Opium War ignited. Another example of imperialism took place in the Middle East where western powers, namely Russia and Britain, took control of Persian oil fields. Finally, the third example of imperialism took…

rebellion by giving the free black man rights and abolishing slavery which gave General Toussaint L'Ouverture an opportunity to take over. He wanted to get rid of all British and Spanish influences in Haiti. This resulted in a war but in the end L'Ouverture was successful and war came to an end 1804. This event is significant because it was another step toward…

The Treaty of Nanking was the first of the unequal treaties against the Chinese as the end result of the China’s defeats in the first Opium war. The Treaty of Nanking was signed on the 29 August 1842 to conclude the First Opium War of 1839-1842. The treaty ceded Hong Kong to the Great Britain as well as opening five treaty ports to the foreigner. China’s territories was completely being destroyed, and lost the independent status. For the western capitalist, the five treaty ports become the…

for the Chinese at the hands of the foreigners, the cause of war and casualties and later became the reason behind the Chinese resentment towards the West. In the last half of the 19th century, prior to the Boxer Rebellion of 1898, China suffered from "humiliating blows at the hand of foreign powers” (Lai and Brown 193). The Opium Wars had “exposed the inferiority of China’s military against foreign powers; the treaties that ended the wars showed a pattern…

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…

resistance of the Chinese made the Japanese outraged. After some time passed by, the Japanese defeated China at Shanghai in November. After days of fighting, Japanese troops invaded Nanking with an order. The order was to slaughter all prisoners of war. After the conflict that took place, venerable women over the age of 70 and some girls under the age of 8 were pulled off to be sexually exploited. More than 20,000, some estimates say 80,000, females were gang-raped by Japanese soldiers. Then,…

Drug Use During the Vietnam Conflict Drug usage during the Vietnam War era was very common. Many soldiers who were drafted into the army had previously experimented with drugs, and it has been estimated that this included 30% of enlisted soldiers. While the remaining 70% of soldiers may not have ventured into drug use before the war, it became all to easy for them once they entered Vietnam where heroin and opium were easily accessed by the soldiers. The drugs were cheap and pure which enabled…