Lin Zexu

it. The use of opium among Chinese people had become very common and many people became addicts even though it was still illegal. In 1839, 5.639 million lbs./year of opium was being imported in, the Emperor order Commissioner Lin Zexu, to end the opium trade. Commissioner Zexu was very successful and retrieved 3 million lbs. Of opium, which took about 23 days to destroy. The British government was outraged by Commissioner Zexu’s actions and immediately sent in military

2). The perspective being shown is from a Chinese man who does not use opium, for he sees it as only causing harm. Lin Zexu was the imperial commissioner who was originally assigned to stop the opium trade in Canton. He was fiercely opposed to the exchange of opium and his actions were considered to be a major catalyst for the start of the Opium War. The emperor wrote to Zexu, “You have caused this war by your excessive zeal” (Document 6). By 1839, war was imminent. The opium trade had caused

The article “Late Quing Perceptions of Native Opium” was written by Lin, Man-Houng. The author’s academic credentials include graduating from Harvard and acquiring her Ph.D in History and East Asian Languages. Man-Houng was a Senior Research Fellow at the Academia Historica in Taiwan, later becoming the first woman to serve as president of the institute (SOAS). The journal article was published January 1, 2004 within the “Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies Vol. 64”, which is a semi-annual publication

In the letter Lin Zexu sent to Queen Victoria, we can say that the Chinese feel that foreign relations are only good if each country benefits from it and is not harmed. He states in the first paragraph, “If there is profit, then he shares it with the peoples of the world; if there is harm, then he removes it on behalf of the world.” This could be a strategy he uses to persuade the Queen to prohibit the sale of Opium to China. The reason for this request is because it is causing addiction problems

Lin Zexu was a Chinese scholar and official during the Qing dynasty. Zexu was known for his conduct and position against the opium trade in China and he has been considered the catalyst for the first opium war of 1839-1842. In 1839 Commissioner Lin Zexu wrote an open letter directed to Queen Victoria of England urging her to end the opium trade between British controlled India and China. The letter was an ultimatum made by Lin on behalf of the Qing emperor to the English Monarch, Queen Victoria.

Nguyen Xuan Bao was born in central Vietnam in 1926. He is better known as Thich Nhat Hanh, the Buddhist monk, highly respected Zen master, writer, and activist. Entering the monastery at age 16, Nhat Hanh was trained in the traditions of Mahayana Buddhism. With over one hundred books published, he has easily been able to spread his message of love, peace, as well as his belief in finding nonviolent solutions to all conflicts. During his time as a monk, Nhat Hanh has established quite a few terms

Khao Do. By Will Slupecki and Phil Gikas Khao Do is a Vietnamese man, who was Born in Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam in 1978. When he was two years old when he left Vietnam with his family and moved to Sydney, after moving around Sydney for a while him and his family finally settled in Yagoona in the cities west. While he was a child he excelled in his school work which helped him received a scholarship to st Aloysius college. He has a mother Hien Do and a dad

Unique Design of the Vietnam War Memorial At the age of twenty one, a female undergraduate at Yale University named Maya Lin submitted her design for the Vietnam Memorial. Her idea for the memorial was extremely unique and controversial. After long discussions by a panel, it was chosen for construction. The design that she submitted was one that was very different in comparison to other memorials, and it was one that has a tendency to leave a lot of questions on the minds of the visitors

history about the Vietnam Veteran Memorial Creation that Maya Lin created and designed, it assist one in appreciating and understanding her work. This is because Maya Lin used natural material as well as recyclable substances to address environmental issues that people could easily recognize. As an artist, environmentalist as well as sculptor, she carved haunting and beautiful imagery to represent the results of environment destruction. Maya Lin won Vietnam veterans memorial competition since she created

A. Plan of Investigation The purpose of this study is to answer the question: To what extent did Chinese leaders display their power through the controlling of sex in the Chinese Cultural Revolution? This can give historians a better understanding of the extent to which the Chinese leaders controlled every aspect of the Chinese people's life. This is a fairly new subject because, as I will discuss later in the project, sex was silenced in the Cultural Revolution. (words:137) | B. Summary