HISTORY 1DD3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Chinese Tea, Tobacco Industry, Sinology
1 Nov 2017
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Exporting/challenging modernity in asia: china in the 19th century. China in 1600/s, most advanced society in the world. Over two centuries, china became dominated by europe. China and japan turned inward over the course of the mid 1700s. Since 1700 qing dynasty dominated china: they follow confucianism, if you want to be aristocratic, study for years, decades, to pass examinations to be appointed to positions running the state. Meritocracy: social hierarchy, and massive peasant population, low taxation, high population growth, twice as many as in europe, trade. Chinese have luxury goods, europeans want them. Chinese don"t want european trade, euros push for it. Emperor allows trade, but no contact with the people (no diplomats, etc. ) British start planting tea in india, india doesn"t need to trade with china for tea. Price of chinese tea drops, demand for opium does not drop: large numbers of christian missionaries go to china with intent of spreading.
