HTST 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Lin Zexu, Canton System, Britishness

• School: University of Calgary
• Department: History
• Course: HTST 200
• Professor: Paul Anthony Chastko

Document Summary

Labouring in tea: trade good substitutions, opium bom substituto, british east )ndia company in (cid:498))ndia(cid:499) China nao deixava o comercio de opium pois afetava o comercio de ch . The trouble with opium: the canton system (now guangzhou) Centro pra troca; chines eram responsaveis : single port commerce system, 1750s-1840s, british east india co. monopoly ended, 1833. 4-12 million out of 460 million using in china, 1850. Early 1900s about of adult chinese men used opium regularly. In 2012, 2. 1 million out of 314 million in the united states (opiate addiction: opium wars. Transformar o opio em illegal nao foi o suficiente. Fechamento de canton: opium crack-down, 1839 (lin zexu) (acreditou que medidas extremas iam ajudar a parar com o comercio de opio, first anglo-chinese war, 1839-42. Opio continua ilegal four new trading cities opened: end of factory system, reparations payments, hong kong transfer. Second anglo-chinese war, 1856-60: more trading cities opened.