HIS103Y1 Lecture 15: Lecture 15
Document Summary
Japan was first colonial power, then international power. Great power gains legal privileges for citizens or subjects in foreign lands. Great power compels the territory to participate in rules of trades (economic rights) Great power maintains legal and trade relationship by force or threat of force. China and japan are never colonised by gps. Where to sell the tea and opium (needs a market) Chinese had resisted the presence of foreign trade. Chinese restriction was resented by british and europeans. Chinese created a trade imbalance (british buying more than selling to china) Opium should be the commodity sold to the chinese. Black market economy in china started to flourish. 1830"s major crackdown on opium dealing and smuggling. British take it as an insult and a direct challenge to their power. Britain thought that china could create their own laws so long as they agreed with britain"s preferences. British insists that foreigners are not subject to chinese law on.
