MMW 14 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Cohong, Qianlong Emperor, East India Company
23 Jan 2019
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Goodwill mission to the court of emperor qianlong. Request to remove all barriers to free trade and cultural exchange (1) Qing quart still viewed britain as a barbarian state (1) Macartney seen as an emissary from a tributary state . Licensed trading firms that were charged with handling all foreign trade. No officials were involved with trade--> all up to the cohongs. Most people in charge of the cohongs let things slide by. Basically allowed the opium trade to take place without interference. Memorials by xu naiji and zhu zun in 1836. Basically over whether or not to legalize opium a) All the legal silver resources are being drained and the only way to stop it is to legalize it and put a tax on it b) Zhu--> treat the opium traders as pirates--> execute them i) Best to strengthen the ban on opium and be very serious on the ban very serious on the ban (2)
