Transcript Imperialism in China

Imperialism in China
What were the causes of the Opium Wars?
China & The West p. 371
1. What was the basis of China’s self sufficiency?
2. What was China’s main crop & where was it grown?
3. What did the Spanish & Portuguese bring to China and
how did it effect the Chinese?
4. What other resources did China have?
The Opium Wars
• Little trade between China & the West, except for silk & tea for silver which
favored China
• British bring technology gifts to China, Chinese are unimpressed
• Next, British bring opium from India to China
• 1835: 12 million Chinese were hooked on the drug –
Chinese Qing Emperor tries to ban opium
• Emperor’s advisor complains to Britain’s Queen Victoria
• Queen ignores him and Britain
Stop
continues trading in Opium
selling
• 1839: China tries to destroy British
opium. Britain starts “Opium Wars”
• Chinese lose the war
drugs to
our people!
•1842: Treaty of Nanjing gives 1) Britain island
of Hong Kong & 2) extraterritorial rights
(foreigners not subject to Chinese Law)
Poppy Plant
Deal
with it!
Geography App: The Opium Wars
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What does each box in the graph represent?
How much did opium increased between 1770 & 1840?
Describe the route in which opium arrived in China?
Why was Singapore important to the British?
Why did the British government encourage opium trade?
Taiping Rebellion
• 1850: Hong Xiuquan recruits peasant army to remove Qing Government,
starting the Taiping Rebellion
• 1864: Empress Cixi asks British & French to help defeat
Hong’s army since 20 million+ killed in Taiping Rebellion
• Hong defeated, Empress “owes” Britain & France but rest of
Europe & Japan want Spheres of Influence in China
• Fearing another “Scramble for Africa”, the US negotiates the open door policy,
which allowed all nations trade with China
Boxer Rebellion
• New Qing Emperor wants to end open door pol.
• He is arrested & Empress Cixi returns
•1900: Angry Chinese form the Boxers, began
a revolt known as the Boxer Rebellion
•Although the Boxers were beaten, Chinese &
West know reform is needed