First Opium War

When the West first made contact with the non-Western world, this was on a basis of trading. As Europeans became further embroiled into the non-West politics, it made trading all the more harder. To keep the flow of trade going, in an easier way, the European countries then began to take over parts of countries, India for example. With China, they made spheres of influence, which, technically was not their colonies, but the European powers still ruled over them. In Africa, many of the European Empires

1. Muhammad Ali. 2. Tanzimat Reformsy. 3. Opium War 4. Treaty of Nanjing/Nanking 5. Taiping Rebellion 6. British Raj 7. Sepoy Rebellion 8. Indian National Congress 9. Clipper Ship 1. Muhammad Ali. (1769-1849) Muhammad Ali was the founder of a dynasty that ruled Egypt in the beginning of 19th century to the middle of the 20th century. He encouraged the emergence of the modern Egyptian state. In 1798, Egypt was controlled by the Ottoman Empire, and occupied by French

McGuire 2 Chinese traders began exchanging tea and silver to The East India Company for a return of Bengali opium imports. Consequently, as the opium addicts rose, so did the supply and demand of exports from Great Britain to China. The ensuing drug trafficking accordingly corrupted many Chinese officials. The opium cartel held by The East India Company made other British agents unhappy, as they too wanted trading monopolies with China in areas such as industrialized

to our country. If they 're not native, where do they come from. The answer is the European colonization. We all know about Christopher Columbus and the Columbian exchange, the most infamous exploration of the world. But, we must dig deeper. It all first began in Portugal who wanted a quicker way to access East Asia by going around Africa, but who would know that this would change the world entirely forever. Bringing animals, a new wave of people, and almost wiping out entire populations with diseases

Filipino Americans living in America today, not often do we see a connection between the two except for the fact that they come from Asia or have descendants from Asia. If we dive deeper into history, we will see that when the Chinese and the Filipinos first came to America, they had very similar purposes and goals in mind; one of them being make money and go back home. They were both determined to work hard for a country quite foreign to them but both were also targeted as the “other side” and a majority

paper is to analyze the reasons for the relinquishment of Hong Kong from three aspects that is historical background, the negotiation between British and Chinese governments and the results. Date back to 1800s in China, after the failure of two Opium Wars; Hong Kong entirely became a colony of Britain according to two unequal treaties that are Treaty of Nanking and Convention of Peking. As Hong Kong is a colony, it must be resumed over one day. After the foundation of People’s Republic of China,

Kong, a Chinese archipelago mainly inhabited by fishers and smugglers, was occupied by the British Empire during the first opium war against the Chinese Qing Empire. On 29 August 1842 the war ended with the Treaty of Nanjing, which included an obligation that China approved the island of Hong Kong as a crown colony of Great Britain. Further conflicts escalated into the second opium war, which resulted in peace in 1860 with the signing of the Convention of Beijing. One of the paragraphs in the convention

faction of that country occupied the territory. During this time period Britain took over India. They began growing opium and tea. Tea happened to be a major export of China. India would eventually replaced China as the main exporter of tea. Japan would also eventually start competing with China for the silk and tea industry. This lead to a weakening of the Chinese economy. Opium that was grown legally in India was now being smuggled,

Although the Industrial Revolution and nationalism shaped European society in the nineteenth century, imperialism—the domination by one country or people over another group of people—dramatically changed the world during the latter half of that century. Imperialism did not begin in the nineteenth century. From the sixteenth to the early nineteenth century, an era dominated by what is now termed Old Imperialism, European nations sought trade routes with the Far East, explored the Ne w World, and established

to take charge on important matters. So the decision had to be maked up by the emperor himself. But after Chien Lung there was no great emperor.  At this point you are probably wondering how on Earth the Qing Dynasty lasted this long after all the wars and rebellions. And by this time it seemed as if China did not have much say in what went on in its own territories. Communism was clearly not working for China. Sun Yat-Sen realized this and he attempted to do something about it. He came close to