First Opium War - Wikipedia
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European silver flowed into China through the Canton System, which confined incoming foreign trade to the southern port city of Canton. To counter this imbalance, the British East India Company began to auction opium grown in India to independent foreign traders in exchange for silver, and in doing so strengthened its ...
Result: British victory, Treaty of Nanking
Location: China
Date: 3 November 1839 – 29 August 1842; (2 ...
Territorial changes: Hong Kong Island ceded to ...
Opium Wars - Wikipedia
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During 1856–1860, British forces fought towards legalisation of the opium trade, to expand coolie trade, to open all of China to British merchants, and to exempt foreign imports from internal transit duties. France joined the British. The war is also known as the "Arrow War", referring to the name of a vessel at the starting point ...
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The Opium Wars still shape China's view of the West - Memories and ...
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Dec 19, 2017 - Even as late as the 1890s, more than 30 years after Britain's last conflict with China, the Opium Wars were still being celebrated in extravagant firework .... But Frank Dikötter, a Dutch sinologist, argues in his book “Narcotic Culture: A History of Drugs in China” that in most cases opium, in the form smoked in ...Opium Wars | Definition, Summary, Facts, & Causes | Britannica.com
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Opium Wars, two armed conflicts in China in the mid-19th century between the forces of Western countries and of the Qing dynasty, which ruled China from 1644 to 1911/12. The first Opium War (1839–42) was fought between China and Britain, and the second Opium War (1856–60), also known as the Arrow War or the ...
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