PPT-Opium Wars

Tjandra Verna Gene China Trade Cantons natural advantages gave it the preferred position on the China coast for foreign trade Monsoon winds from the southwest allowed sailing ships to ride smoothly downwind across the Indian Ocean Arabian Sea and the South China Sea. ABBY ROSENSON. How Did the British Become . I. nvolved?. 1781-1793 – Value of all British goods imported into China amount to one sixth of the value of teas exported to Britain.. Late 1700’s – British find opium to be popular among the elites of China.. Patrick Henry was a somewhat the antithesis to James Madison of Federalist note. While every bit as emotional a writer, Henry (who penned the well remembered "Give Me Liberty of Give Me Death" phrase) (c. 1519-1559). . A. . Treaty of . Cateau-Cambrèsis. (1559). Ended Hapsburg-Valois Wars (last purely dynastic wars in 16. th. century). The wars had been political in nature (not religious) as both France and the HRE were Catholic.. What is Opium. Comes from collecting and later drying the milky juice that comes from the seed pods of the poppy plant.  . Opium has a very bitter taste and a distinct odor that is easily recognizable (if you know the odor you’re smelling).. Created By:. Zack . Zahrend. Definition. A bitter, yellowish-brown, strongly addictive narcotic drug prepared from the dried juice of unripe pods of the opium poppy and containing alkaloids such as . British Colonialism in China, . 1800-1900. (originally created by . Gordon . Grisé. and edited by Mike Farley). Opium in China – Video Overview (4 min). http. ://. www.history.com/shows/mankind-the-story-of-all-of-us/videos/opium-in-china. Parker Radcliff. Names for Opium. Older Names from Ancient China: . Ah-Pen-Yen. Buddha. Chillum. Chinese Molasses. Chinese Tobacco. Fi-Do-Nie. Gee. Goric. Pen Yen. Pin Gon. Pin Yan. When-shee. Yen S hey Suey. Strayer. 877-882. Opening. Japanese textbooks downplay terrors of the “Rape of Nanjing” and Chinese “Comfort Women” in WWII. Weird b/c JPN was always in CHN’s shadow until the 1800s. Both dealt with European imperialism and industrialization differently. Comparing Responses . in the 19. th. Century . Dramatic Moment: The Opium . Wars . results in the Treaty . of . Nanjing. After three years of naval warfare(1839-1842), the Treaty of Nanjing is signed in 1842 between Great Britain and the Qing rulers of China . ‘FREE’ TRADE AND CHINA. In the years leading up to the Opium Wars, . foreign . trade was strictly controlled by the Chinese . using . the . “. Canton System.”. T. he . British ran a . three-country trade system: . Opium Wars. Economics of China Trade. . China did not need western goods. While they did not mind trade with the outside if it brought in wealth. , the Chinese state did . not actively pursue trade as source of wealth. .  . Adalberto Miranda-Filho. 1. , . Michelle C. Turner. 2-4. , David B. Richardson. 1,5. , Bayan Hosseini. 1. , . Farin. Kamangar. 7. , . Akram. Pourshams. 6. , Vikash Sewram. 8. , . Saman. Warnakulasuriya. Opium Dens. An East End Opium Den 1870. For . many, images of the darker side of Victorian London are shaped by the descriptions of writers like Henry Mayhew in the middle decades of the century, or by Blanchard Jerrold and . Dept.of. Forensic Medicine & Toxicology. OPIUM . Dried juice of poppy (papaver somniferum) . Cultvated only under licence. Upto 1 metre in length. Plant bears 5-8 capsules. Flowers white. Poppy seeds-khaskhas-white harmless demulsent used as food.