Opium Wars

1792 -

britain

walk out of american revo

lose american colony

losts of money

need new revenue source

finds china

“middle kingdom”

1644 opium war

1911 second opium war

original trade goods for silver

good for china, not good for UK

find wai to amke fairer - opium

export from india to china

addiction crisis

ban on production & distribution

make illegal to smoke

make punishments more serious

2 drunk birtish sailors kill chinese man

not punished

cut off british food supply

expelled all british from macau to hong kong

nov 1839 - merchant ship clash w/ british

lead to first opium war

sent british war to hk, canton

captured nanking

treaty of nanking

give HK to britain

21 million dollars

shanghai canton ninqo fuzhou amoy as ports

treaaty of bouge - 1843

most favored nation status to UK

follow british rules

second opium war

failure of nanking treaty to better british situation

britsh ship clash w/ chinese

british used as excuse to send military to china

w/ french bc killed frech missionary

fought to tianjin

treaty of tianjin

foreign embassies in beijing, catholicism, legalise opium

10 more ports

IMPACTS

humiliating defeat - blow to prospoerous qing empire

show qing is weak, make qing weaker

stop dynasties

century of humiliation