HIS103Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Second Opium War, Gunboat Diplomacy, Taiping Rebellion
Document Summary
Intervention by europeans and americans that will shape china and japan. Great power gains legal privileges for its citizens or subjects in a foreign land. Compels its informal imperial territory to participate in a particular kind of trade set by the great powers themselves. Both china and japan experience informal imperial intervention. British gave india a lot of imperial attention. India was also producing a large quantity of opium and the market of china seems ideal. The chinese had resisted the presence of foreign trade. Chinese limited imports of foreign goods in canton, which is now guangzhou. Chinese trade was resented by the british because they demanded tea, silk and they bought them from china. By controlling what could be sold to china, the chinese created a trade imbalance in the most basic of terms, the british were buying more from china than they were selling and they wanted to change that.
