HIEA 2031 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Canton System, British Chinese, Chinese Tea
27 Sep 2016
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During later decline of qing, was also facing aggressive european imperialism. Imperialism: global european expansion fueled by economic interests of european nations and economic interests of capitalism. Jesuit missionaries arrived in 17th century trying to convert elites: tried to show no con ict between jesuits and confucianism, didn"t succeed and ran afoul of emperor in 1700s due to succession dispute, that emperor banned christianity. European traders during 1600-1700s: portuguese traders from india, mercantilism in europe: Trade generates wealth and is stimulated by protected pro table balances. Merchants and protestant missionaries from britain and holland: large, monopolistic trading houses. British east india co (founded 1600: royal grant providing it a monopoly on all trade in asia, eventually ruled india. Most british and chinese were ignoring trade restrictions at the time: chinese were happy to trade with foreigners. But emperor began seeing them as commercial threat. Restricted all trade to one port in guangzhou/canton.
