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1. China
   ... The Opium Wars began when China publicly destroyed a British ship that carried chests of opium. In January 1841, the British navy claimed Hong Kong Island. ...
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2. Western Imperialism in Japan and China
   ... China was the main source of trade for the British. China was considered the mother of all candy stores. Everyone wanted to go get candy for the store. ...
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3. China Revolution
   ... The treaty also gave British citizens in China the right to be tried in British courts. Other Western powers demanded, and were granted, similar privileges. ...
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4. Imperialism in Nigeria and China
   ... In China, only a half a century after Emperor Qianlong sent King George III of England his rejection of the British appeal for trade concessions, Emperor ...
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5. China
   ... of outside barbarians in exchange for our own products.ampquot A Short History of China, p. 170. Although China was not interested in British products, including ...
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6. Colonization of Hong Kong
   ... ampquotHis Majesty the Emperor of China agrees that British subjects, with their ... In 1898 the British were musing whether to extend their territories in China. ...
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7. The Chinese of British Colombia
   ... immigration was introduced. Many of the Chinese workers that came to Canada were men who had families back in China. They came to ...
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8. Chinese
   ... the terms of China. The British sent an embassy to set up diplomatic ties with China and open more ports. The Emperor denied the ...
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9. Commumism in HongKong
   ... Hong Kong was a part of China before the British took possession of Hong Kong in 1842 after defeating China in the first opium war. ...
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10. Chinaamp39s Path to Modernization
    ... letter, Lin demands that England stop the trade of opium immediately: This demand led to the BritishQing Dynasty war Opium War, which China eventually lost. ...
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11. Hong Kong
    ... In April of 1840, the British government decided to wage a fullfledged war with China. ... This meant that China and the British would govern Hong Kong. ...
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12. Causes of the Opium War
    Even President John Quincy Adams asserted, ampquotThe seizure of a few thousand chests of opium smuggled into China by the British government was no more the cause ...
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13. The Opium Wars
    ... In addition to rigid restrictions under the Canton System of trade, the British suffered from a negative trade deficit with China. ...
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14. Coffee, Tea, or Opium
    ... 1997. The Opium War, which broke out around 1839, was by nature a war of aggression inflicted upon China by the British people. As ...
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15. Opium Wars
    ... With both of these treaties signed, China was forced to pay a large reimbursement, open five ports to British trade and residence, and give Hong Kong to Britain ...
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16. WWII5
    ... 1989. However, it as only an overture to the sharp turning of the British policy toward China on the Hong Kong issues. The political ...
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17. Imperialism 2
    ... with China. After that, Guang XI organized western style schools, promoted economic changes, and issued laws to update the civil service exam. British rule in ...
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18. Chinas Worse Nightmare
    ... The rise of the British opium trade with China not only brought devastating and chaotic results for the Chinese government, but also for its citizens. ...
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19. Chinatown
    ... During the early 1800amp39s opium addiction reached epidemic proportions in China. It became so popular the British began using it instead of money. ...
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20. Chinese and Japanese Trade
    ... for. This made the Chinese weak and an easy target. The British were able to accomplish the same thing in China and Japan. The Portuguese ...
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21. The 1911 Chinese Revolution
    ... Its efforts to terminate the British opium trade in China and decrease the outflow of silver led to two disastrous wars in 1840 and 1856, which cause further ...
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22. Liberal Perspective on Britains Trade Policies
    ... In 1886, during their visit to China, British consuls found themselves in a very different position from their colleagues in Europe. ...
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23. Peal Harbor
    ... US Ambassador to Japan, Joseph Grew, warned President Roosevelt that Japan wanted to carry out plans to dominate China, the Philippines, and British and Dutch ...
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24. CENTURY OF FURNACE
    ... Mysore killed in 1799 by British and then Britain had established colonial rule there. China was prospered in the 18th century and population almost 300 million ...
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25. Asian Woman
    The arrival of British colonialism in China and India provided a major catalyst of change for women and their roles in society which helped to change the ...
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26. pearlharbor
    ... 1941. This incident threatened not only the back route to China, but British control of Malaya and Burma now Myanmar. Roosevelt ...
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27. tibet
    ... The British even made China accept the treaty, because they thought China would interfere with the Britishamp39s trading privileges with the Tibetans. ...
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28. tibet
    ... The British even made China accept the treaty, because they thought China would interfere with the Britishamp39s trading privileges with the Tibetans. ...
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29. War
    ... Early in the 19th cent British merchants began smuggling opium into China in order to balance their purchases of tea for export to Britain. ...
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30. Hong Kong 2
    ... Artists and political activists face censorship that they never did in British Hong Kong. Many in Hong Kong also believe that China is becoming too involved in ...
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