POLI1042 Lecture 7: Note Feb 10, 2017
10 Feb 2017
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China the relationship between china and the us will be very important moving forward understanding chinese history shapes their political system and way of thinking modern chinese history and chinese political economy. History goes way back must further than any other country ancient civilizations, confucius (500 bce) he was talking about ancient chinese dynasties, in 500 bce he was talking about old dynasties. China didn"t have control of its own borders and a airs the british had a large hand in this. China wasn"t colonized directly like much of asia, africa, india most despicable act -> british in the opium wars a lot of the west wanted to buy a lot of stu in china many desirable crafts, trade goods. China didn"t see a lot of things they wanted in britain, trade de cit. British wanted to make chinese buy stu , they forced open the chinese market for opium.
