HIS102Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: National Palace Museum, Indian Ocean Trade, Canton System
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Culture and the opium trade in the opening of china. 1770 1850: west is what changed chinese history impact of the west (fairbank, taking away agency history determined by somebody else, assuming the west is an entity. China and the world before 1800: the canton system: chinese world order had its premise that the emperor was centre of universe & from that centre emanated order (household, village, society) Jesuit missionaries, priests presented themselves as scholars: tolerated and welcomed, extraterritoriality idea that when foreigner is in china, he has to be governed by only foreign law. Trade under canton system: europeans traders confined in canton major port that most foreign trade was conducted from. Idea of opening diplomatic and trade relations with china. Imposing british style of foreign relations: emperor qianlong refused caotao/kowtow, brought products of industrial revolution trying to show chinese what kind of manufactured goods they could offer.
