Introduction
The East India Company was established by the British and then monopolized the trades towards the China. As the trades could not fulfil the ambition of the British, they requested for more benefits. However, the Qing court rejected and the relationship between the two countries came to a rapid deterioration. Unfortunately, after the out broke of the war, China became weaker than before.
The following will discuss the relationship between Britain and China by how opium trade appeared and the effects of opium trade. Moreover, the consequences of the First opium war and how it shaped the relationship of Anglo-China will be mentioned.
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The Qing dynasty forbidden sea trade until the emperor Kangxi unified China from the
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Measurement dues needed to pay by the Two East India Company ships “London” and “Worcester” when they first arrived Macau in 1687. Moreover, the paid The second time the ships gave 240 silver taels to the Guangdong Customs Supervisor and 250 silver taels for the costal guard fee when they arrived in the second times. They enjoy the peaceful trade by bribing the Chinese officials. Still, it was not an equal trade. There were no laws in paying surtax, however, it was an omitted regulation. The ships paid 1147 and 612 silver taels for income tax and other surtax in …show more content…
It was no doubts that Britain was fully armed and prepared for the war to defeat China, which allowed them to get what wish after winning. Therefore, Britain was aggressive. On the contrary, China was not ready for the war. Lin Zexu, who represented the aggressive attitude towards Britain, prepared for the war well while he was destroying the opium in Guangzhou. He even defeated the British army in Chuanbi for several times. However, Emperor Daoguang, who represent the conservative attitude towards Britain, wished to avoid the war since he had known China was weak. The two different views were destined the failure of
Foreign ships were prohibited from trading in the English colonies, thereby preventing Virginians from continuing their profitable trade with the Dutch. Virginia’s principal crop stood in danger of additional taxation because of the Crown’s urgent need for revenue, and because the English at home were incorrigibly reluctant to pay the true cost of maintaining their government.6
This was extremely smart on the Dutch’s behave because it made it seem like the Chinese was a strong force to be reckoned with and also showed them that other people realized it. In document 10.10 Francis
In order to get contraband past the Britain the merchants disguised their ships with flags of truce(Truxes 87-104), used legal goods as covers
The British empire had taken over many colonies, India refused to be one of them. Britain set up trading posts in three cities. One of those cities, the mughal empire collapsed and britain 's posts quickly took control. Britain found that India was very valuable with the resources that they could easily take and use to sell to the high population of India. Britain put the justice and military system into place for India which made an efficient profit for them and made them all in all knowledgeable.
Many of us find ourselves in instances where when a guest comes to our house and changes things around according to them, rage of anger kindles within us because their actions are not according to our way of living. Similarly in the late 18th century, Britain set out ventures to the Indian Ocean. At this point in time, India already had an established government and had some portions of the country under the Mughal rule. Despite this, the British thought it would be profitable for them to set trading ports in India. Therefore, the British East India Company was created to help Britain communicate with the Indian government and help implement these ports.
They had more ships than everyone, and they were able to consistently to make more. The
They need to socially and economically adapted to fit with the global flow of silver. Documents number four and eight show views from different British people. Ralph Fitch, a British merchant, traveled to the East Indies. He said, that they was a ship “that goes to Japan every year, and brings back more than 600,000 coins worth of Japanese silver.” The Portuguese used silver to buy many different luxuries such as gold, silk, perfume, copper, and porcelain.
This outraged many of the colonist who did not feel like they should be taxed for items they normally received for free. Their outrage led
Unfortunately, this thinking prevented the Chinese from learning from western technology and science. As a result the West was able to easily defeat the Qing in key battles such as the Opium War in 1839 to 1841. In contrast to the Ottomans, the Qing was unable to compromise with the West and Europe forced its way into China. However, both societies were influenced by Western methods, despite attempts to restore traditional ideology and campaigns by both Chinese
In 1839, the Chinese government tried to ban opium from a port city called Canton. Columbia University 's article, China and the West, says that, “the Chinese are defeated by superior British arms and which results in the imposition of the first of many “Unequal Treaties.” These treaties open other cities, “Treaty Ports” — first along the coast and then throughout China — to trade, foreign legal jurisdiction on Chinese territory in these ports, foreign control
This was costly for the american colonist because the british sold their tea at a low rate however they would tax them as
THE OPIUM WARS And its Affect on America The Dream of Trade Throughout the 19th century, Americans dreamed of exploiting China 's market. Especially after the United States expanded to the West Coast, prospects for a lucrative and expanding Far Eastern trade energized U.S. merchants and manufacturers. However China 's imperial government took steps to discourage international trade. When U.S. merchant ships first began arriving in the Far East in the 1780s, they were restricted to trading only through Hong Kong, on the South Coast of China. That restriction persisted for another half century, preventing the China trade from rising above a minute percent of U.S. global commerce.
The Britain felt that it was only natural that the American colony would pay the mother country more for their protection after the Seven Years War with France. England was trying to relieve some tax burdens by increasing the tax on the colonies (xix). “that the main purpose of country’s overseas possessions were to serve the business interest of British merchants and manufacturers and to provide the mother country with raw materials” (xvii). However, such increase in demand, and pressure seemed unfair to the American colony despite the fact that they had been paying less tax compared to an English
In 1895, Japan took over a large part of China and so did the Europeans in the late 1890s due to China’s leaders’ lack of power to control their nation by opening up its doors for them to trade and them taking an advantage of it. Many of the US business and government leaders worried they were not give equal opportunity to trade with them so they proposed the Open Door Policy with China. The policy stated all nations will be allowed to trade freely in and with China. Europeans this to be the benefit of the US and would take away their power in China so they did not accept. Later European accepted the Open Door Policy after more than 200 foreigners were killed in the Boxer Rebellion.
The goals of the western powers were not strictly economic, but also prescribing to their ideas of Christian exceptionalism. As stated by Thomas David Dubois, “during the late eighteenth and especially nineteenth centuries, Catholic and Protestant missions from throughout Europe and North America brought their faith and civilization to every corner of the globe. This reach was facilitated by the penetration of imperial military power, leading to the frequently evoked image of the missionary arriving with the Bible in one hand and a gun in the other” (Dubois 127). This was the situation in China which eventually incites the Boxer rebellion and showdown at Peking. Yang simplifies the imperial conflicts in China through the symbolic events in Bao’s life which lead him to fight.