ASNS 1150 Lecture Notes - Cash Crop (Album), White Lotus Rebellion, New World Crops

• School: Northeastern University
• Department: Asian Studies
• Course: ASNS 1150
• Professor: Philip Thai

Document Summary

Chaos because old center of power crumbles, and new regime is taking hold. Regime change took long time to resolve itself rebellious to manshu rule. Changing trade routes disrupted because of war in euro (protestant v catholic) Canton system - western nations that wanted to trade with china had to go to canton at specific times of the year and live at certain places. Addictive consumable - tea, coffee, tobacco, opium, sugar. Internal migrations --> you can live in places you couldn"t live in before. Taiwan was added to the land under the 17th century.