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Part Of China Lot Of Money
984 wordsWhy would a communist country want to have a capitalist country? Well I think it is because Hong Kong has a lot of money, because they are one of the major trade centers of the world. Another reason is that Hong Kong was a part of China until 1842 when the British defeated China in the first Opium War and took possession of Hong Kong. In this report I will be talking about how the Communist Chinese government regained possession of Hong Kong, a capitalist Colony, after 156 years of British rule....
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Cambridge Harvard Opium War
1,219 words... eir well, equipped ammunition smuggling boats, they would take the delivery of opium chests from the foreigners' receiving ships around the coasts of China. Gradually, the number of illicit smuggling increased in Chinese waters, particular in the north of Canton (Fairbank, Reischauer, Craig 452). As a consequence, opium addiction and illegal smuggling soared corrupting the government and China spiraled into what some call the worst drug case in human history. So what was proposed to resolve ...
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Hundreds Of Thousands Hong Kong
1,839 wordsHong Kong, British dependency in eastern Asia, on the South China Sea, bordered by China on the north. It is made up of many islands, a portion of the mainland, and a considerable expanse of water surface. It has a land area of 1076 sq km (415 sq mi). Despite its small size, Hong Kong plays an important role in the world economy. The dependency can be divided into three main regions-Hong Kong Island and nearby islets; the mainland Kowloon Peninsula and Stonecutters Island; and the New Territorie...
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People Of China Qing Dynasty
1,619 wordsThe Opium War only lasted from 1839 - 1842 and 1856 - 1860, but it was far more devastating to China's view as the center of the world. China had always treated the outside as inferior and felt that when faced with conflict they could overcome them. Until the nineteenth century, China had been able to withstand the Western Powers not because they were stronger, but because of a lack of conflict. What the Qing dynasty, the emperor family at reign during this time period, could not know was this c...
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Constitutional Monarchy Secret Societies
1,929 wordsThe Western Powers Arrive As also in other places in Asia, in China the Portuguese were the pioneers, establishing a base" at Macao, from which they monopolised foreign trade at the Chinese port of Guangzhou. Soon the Spanish also arrived, followed by the British and the French. Trade between China and the West was carried on in the guise of tribute: foreigners were obliged to follow the old rules imposed on envoys from China's tributary states. There was no conception at the imperial court that...
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Word Of God Twenty Thousand
994 wordsOpium War is mainly about the trade triangle of Great Britain, India, and China. The book goes in great detail on how opium was extracted, produced, and traded to china from India. Great Britain was in control of India as a colony. Using its villages as opium plants, India traded the drug to china for tea. Tea was consumed by the English heavily. Therefore trade to the Chinese was important for economic and social circumstances. It also had a political element in it. This is because opium allowe...
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The Opium War In China
665 wordsIn 1842, the Opium War ended with the foreigners defeating the Chinese. Up until then, China had always been closed to all forms of trade. The British and the French forced China to become open to their trade. The loss of the Opium War led to China becoming open to all trade and a decline in Chinese economy (Peffer, 60). The Chinese lost the Opium War and were forced to sign the Treaty of Nanking on April 29, 1842, and the Treaty of the Bogue on October 1, 1843. These treaties demanded that Chin...
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Opium War Chinese Leaders
760 wordsHistory of China can reveal many interesting facts to learn. It is full of wars and political challenges, revolutions and tortures. Chinas civilization is one of the most ancient that has great cultural values. To begin with three feudatories, which grew out of the three chief economic areas of the Han Dynasty. The leaders of the kingdoms strove to reunite the empire and were therefore at constant warfare. These three kingdoms were the Wei, in northern China, the Shu to the west, and the Wu in t...
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Chiang Kai Shek Mao Zedong
1,761 wordsHistory of China History of China can reveal many interesting facts to learn. It is full of wars and political challenges, revolutions and tortures. Chinas civilization is one of the most ancient that has great cultural values. Empress Cixi was born on November 29, 1835. Her clan name was Yehonala. Like the emperor and most other prominent people in China at that time, Yehonala and her family were Manchu, and had little contact with Chinese people. Cixi was a strong ruler who suppressed many reb...
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Chiang Kai Shek Chinese Communist Party
1,504 wordsHistory of China History of China can reveal many interesting facts to learn. It is full of wars and political challenges, revolutions and tortures. Chinas civilization is one of the most ancient that has great cultural values. To begin with three feudatories, which grew out of the three chief economic areas of the Han Dynasty. The leaders of the kingdoms strove to reunite the empire and were therefore at constant warfare. These three kingdoms were the Wei, in northern China, the Shu to the west...
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Opium Wars Ch Ing
861 wordsHistorians have christened the wars fought between China and Britain from 1839 to 1842 and from 1856 to 1860 as The Opium Wars; however, the Opium Wars really were not about opium. Even President John Quincy Adams asserted, The seizure of a few thousand chests of opium smuggled into China by the British government was no more the cause of the Opium War than the throwing overboard of the tea in the Boston harbor was the cause of the North American Revolution (Chung, 1). In fact, one may argue tha...
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Israeli Palestinian Conflict Second Punic War
3,630 wordsWhy do wars take place? Most people would think that wars are launched because a country needs more territory, or because a countrys borders are threatened, or because of appeasement. The real reason for war is that countries begin to feel that their honor is threatened; they feel that other nations are not giving them the worth and dignity they deserve, and so they take to the battlefield. On the Origins of War and the Preservation of Peace, Dr. Kagan is a classical scholar who hopes to get pol...
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Hong Kong Qing Dynasty
2,525 wordsHong Kong has had a long and complex past and looks to have a waning and declining economy. Hong Kong has a peculiar political past. It was taken over by the British after the two Opium Wars. The Treaty of Nanjing gave the British control of the island port of Hong Kong and access to other ports. Afterwards, the second Opium War broke out and this gave the British control of the peninsula of Kowloon. Soon afterwards, the British leased the New Territories from Chinese for 99 years. In 1984 they ...
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Queen Victoria Opium War
898 wordsThe original quest for colonies, which began in the 17 th century, was economically justified by the dominance of the mercantilist system. One of mercantilism's key assumptions was that a country could only become wealthy through the accumulation of gold stock. The only way to maintain a large gold stock was to block trade with other nations, and extract resources from far off colonies. This was the major justification for early colonization. In the quest for profit, England led the way in the i...
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Opium Wars Opium Trade
559 wordsThe Opium War was a display of how the greed of one country can destroy the very lives of millions of people in another country. Britain would be categorized as the greedy nation and China the victim. Even though Britain was the main aggressor in this war, there were also other nations involved in the degrading of China s culture, they were France, Russia, and even America. All of these countries took advantage of the addiction China s people had to opium by sending chests of opium with about 15...
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