Second Opium War

To fully investigate the impact of global relations the example of both illegal and legal opiates will be discussed. Throughout history, opium has been used for medicinal purposes making it a very tradeable commodity with a high net worth. This has led to the trade in both legal and illegal global markets. This essay will show how power, violence and harm together with global and local markets have been affected. It is important to understand the fundamental difference between legal and…

the black market, restricting the leakage of the drug on to the streets. Rather than trying to discourage the production of opium in Afghanistan, the United States should encourage the licit production of the drug for medical purposes. According to the International Narcotics Control Board, 80% of the world’s population faced a shortage of opium based medicines. Opium is the key ingredient in producing demerol, codeine, morphine, oxycodone, hydrocodone, and non-medicinal heroine used to…

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…

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Western Barbarians. This resulted in what is known as the Opium War. The British government was exporting Opium to China. Chinese citizens were getting addicted to opium and eventually the Chinese government stopped opium import from Great Britain. This hurt the British economy and resulted in a war between the two countries. At the end of the Opium War China was forced to give up land and be colonized by western civilizations. The Opium War and influence of Western powers led to The…

The primary source I have selected includes the account of the opium war from the perspective of a Chinese government official Wei Yuan. The author E.H. Parker translated the last two chapters of Wei Yuan’s book Shengwuji in his book Chinese Account of the Opium War. Published in the Great Britain in 1888, the book came 40 years later than the original narrative from the orient, which was written immediately after the opium war between the Great Britain and China. The hard copy of this document…

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