ASNS2627 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Chinese Tea, International Political Economy, Recession

• School: University of Sydney
• Department: Asian Studies
• Course: ASNS2627
• Professor: all

Document Summary

Week 8: opium and tea: economic game changers under imperial expansion. The asian giants, china and india have had a unique paradigm of interactions under the colonial domination of the british rulers. The china trade under the aegis of the empire, which has been well researched by scholars, influenced and interfered in how mututal perceptions in china-india relations were developed during this period. Whereas the british reorganized their balance of trade for chinese tea with opium, indian subcontinent became a principle supplier of the much dreaded product. This lecture will focus on various dimensions of the china trade and its relevance on the china-india relations during the period. *man-houng lin, world recession, indian opium, and china"s opium war in k. s. Mariners, merchants and oceans: studies in maritime history (new delhi: manohar, 1995), pp. A. trocki, opium, empire and the global political economy: a study of asian opium. Trade, 1750-1950 (routledge: london, new york, 1999), chapter 5, the most gentlemanlike.