HIST 218 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Summer Palace, Empress Dowager Cixi, Hong Xiuquan
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(cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) Briish has diferent view, could be legally and illegally bought. Made some people very rich, buy seats in parliament. 16 warships 4 newly designed steamships briish leet operate in shallow (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) sabotaging chinese trade did not expect this is what the briish would do. Briish staring to sink chinese ships, occupies canton in guangzhou. Another leet in spring 1842 run up against the currents. Briish will protect chinese ciizens because qing government had no waters (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) poliical means of protecing its ciizens (cid:1) Legally open port where everybody can go and trade. Guangzhou open go and freely trade with chinese merchants without control of government ciies along the seaside (cid:1) Complete ciies start to emerge hong kong and shanghai south from sea (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1)