ASIAN AM 160 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: First Opium War, Anglo-Saxons, Overseas Chinese
20 Sep 2016
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1760 chinese government restricted foreign commerce to canton whereas fukien operated by. Chinese merchants: those from fukien made up earliest chinese settlements in malaysia, philippines, and. Massive outflow prompted chinese government to prohibit immigration, 1656-1729: death upon return, only slowed down outmigration. Besides merchants, early immigrants were miners in thailand, malaysia, and borneo. First opium war (anglo-chinese wars) symbolic of western encroachment on china, 1839-1842. By 1842, chinese in every continent: 2 million overseas chinese. Mass immigration to americas enabled by western ships in kwangtung ports. Immigration of chinese laborers to u. s. coincided with chinese immigration to peru, australia, Immigration also coincided with mass immigration of europeans to u. s. Wars and treaty negotiations with native americans. War of 1812 with great britain and the acquisition of pacific northwest. Mexican-american war, 1846-1848: texas, new mexico, arizona, utah, nevada, california, colorado. U. s. will go from one ocean to the other.
