Chinas Worse Nightmare
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China's Worse Nightmare
What was China's worse nightmare during the late 18th and the 19th century? The answer is opium. 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. In this paper, I plan to discuss about how and why the opium trade was introduced. In addition, why opium-smoking was so popular and the different ways of how China …
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…the Opium War." Http://china.candidmedia.com/ dispatches/thirteen/13 featurea.html (16 August 1999). Spence, Jonathan D. The Search for Modern China. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1990. Teng, Ssu-yu, and John K. Fairbank. China's Response to the West. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1982. "The Opium War and the Treaty of NanKing." Http://easc.indiana.edu/pages/easc/curriculum/ china/1996/EACP WorkBook/modern/opium.htm (16 August 1999) "The Governor-General of Hu-Kwang Proposes Rigid Prohibition of Opium." Document No. 6. 10 July 1838.
