COLONIALISM AND IMPERIALISM
COLONIALISM AND ITS ANALYSIS
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The Chinese wanted more Opium from the British and the British wouldn’t give it to them.
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General Opium kidnapped the Emperors daughter.
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The Qing Dynasty dumped millions of dollars worth of Opium in to the ocean and then refused to pay back the merchants.
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The Mongols tricked the British and the Chinese into fighting over drugs. Revenge.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The first Opium War was the result of China’s attempt to suppress the illegal opium trade, which had led to widespread addiction in China and was causing serious social and economic disruption there. British traders were the primary source of the drug in China.
Detailed explanation-2: -Britain wanted to expand its imperial power and sell more goods, especially the opium whose import the Chinese tried to ban, while the British sold or smuggled in anyway. In other words, it was a case of commercial and imperialist British greed trying to force opium on the Chinese.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Second Opium War further weakened the government and the morality of the nation. The Qing lost their privileges within the government, resulting in the alterations of basic Chinese morals and cultural values. Christianity threatened the teachings of Confucianism, one of the establishing ideas of the government.
Detailed explanation-4: -After losing the First Opium War, the Qing Dynasty then had to deal with the Taiping Rebellion (caused in part by anti-foreign sentiment sprung from the Opium War) and a subsequent Second Opium War, which created more unequal trade stipulations.