HIST 1082 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Morphine, Meiji Restoration, Black Market
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Emperor qianlong to king george iii of great britiain, 1793 ahead of their competitors. Indian-grown british crop: trade surplus turns to deficit, mercantilism, gateway drug: weapon of mass relaxation, allow people to deal with stresses of everyday life. Opium under slave labor: sells to china traders, silver used to purchase tea, porcelain etc from china, mercantilism in motion. Instability feeds domestic uprising: civil war between authorities in beijing and local war lords sick of the dynasty, costs lives of 30mil. The last emperor (1912: qing in tailspin, boxer rebellion 1898 vs. foreigners, beijing occupied by british, russian, japanese, french, german, american troops, pride of chinese nation had been the great wall (meant to fend off. Mongolian tribes: irony = real danger that collapsed chinese empire did not come from land but from the sea, last emperor, puyi, abdicates 1912, walls.
