Frist+opium+war

When ? The Opium Wars, also known as the Anglo-Chinese Wars, divided into the [|First Opium War] from 1839 to 1842 ,were the climax of disputes over trade and diplomatic relations between [|China] under the [|Qing Dynasty] and the [|British Empire]. Where ? Coast of China, mostly Guangzhou. (The largest parking harbor)

[] The first opium war stared by 1839 and ended in 1842, was the climax of disputes over trade and diplomatic relations between [|China] under the [|Qing Dynasty] and the [|British Empire]. Firstly some British company start to trading and selling the opium to China, the opium gets in to China by the coastline, there is 11 main port cities involved into the opium trade, there are Chusan island, Shanghai, Tientsin, Chinkiang, Nanking, Ningpo, Amoy, Canton, Guangzhou, and Macao.

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The **First Anglo-Chinese War** (1839–42), known popularly as the **First Opium War** or simply the **Opium War**, was fought between the [|United Kingdom] and the [|Qing Dynasty] of [|China] over their conflicting viewpoints on diplomatic relations, trade, and the administration of justice.[|[3]] Chinese officials wished to control the spread of [|opium], and confiscated supplies of opium from British traders. The British government, although not officially denying China's right to control imports, objected to this seizure and used its military power to violently enforce redress.[|[3]] In 1842, the [|Treaty of Nanking]—the first of what the Chinese later called the [|unequal treaties]—granted an [|indemnity] to Britain, the opening of five [|treaty ports], and the cession of [|Hong Kong Island], thereby ending the trade monopoly of the [|Canton System]. The failure of the treaty to satisfy British goals of improved trade and diplomatic relations led to the [|Second Opium War] (1856–60).__ [4] __ The war is now considered in China as the beginning of modern Chinese history. =The Opium Wars= Timeline Text view
 * || **Event Date:**  ||  **Event Title:**  ||  **Event Description:**  ||
 * || 01/01/1800 || **Illegalization of Opium** || The Chinese government makes the importation of opium into China illegal. ||
 * || 01/01/1830 || **Britain is the Colombia of the 19th Century** || Britain becomes the largest drug-trafficking empire in the world ||
 * || 01/01/1836 || **Opium no more!** || The Chinese government takes the plunge and makes opium illegal in China. This includes possession, farming, and selling of the drug. ||
 * || 03/01/1839 || **The era of Lin Tse-hsu** || Lin Tse-hsu is appointed Imperial Commisioner at Canton. His main goal is the eradication of the opium trade with Britain. ||
 * || 11/01/1839 || **WAR!!** || British ships attemt to bring shipments of opium into a chinese port. Chinese ships attempt to turn the ships away and stop the opium from reaching the shore. The British government uses this as an excuse to attack China. ||
 * || 06/01/1840 || **Britain** **Gets Angry** || British ships sail up and down the Chinese coast wreaking havoc with their superior technology. ||
 * || 01/01/1842 || **Unequal Treaty Number One** || This marks the end of the first opium war. Britain forces China to sign the Treaty of Nanking which gives Britain trading rights with China and Hong Kong is ceded to the British. ||
 * || 01/01/1844 || **The Americans and French Join In** || America and France recieve the same trading rights with China as Britain. ||
 * || 01/01/1856 || **WAR! (again)** || China seizes a British ship called the Arrow, for its cargo of opium. Britain and France use this as an excuse and attack China. ||
 * || 01/01/1858 || **Unequal Treaty Number Two** || The Treaty of Tientsin is signed and gives Britain and France more rights than they could ever hope for. New ports are opened to foreign trade, foreigners are allowed into China and missionaries are allowed to spread Christianity. Finally the importation of opium is legalized. The U.S. and Russia recieve these rights in later treaties. ||

** How did Opium war affect to China (ningbo)? **
Ningbo was one of the five Chinese treaty ports opened by the Treaty of Nanjing (signed in 1842) at the end of the First Opium War between Britain and China. British abolished the monopoly of the Chinese merchant guilds in Ningbo. British goods were imposed with a very low import tax, and British subjects were allowed to move freely inside China. Thus Ningbo was developed very slowly. In addition, Shanghai grew up quickly than Ningbo. So, many merchant in ningbo went out to Shanghai and succeeded earned much money.

British continued to sell Opium to Chinese. Gradually, the poisoning of Opium became more serious problem. Every Chinese wanted to buy Opium when they had money. The economy of China was going to be bad. In addition, as China was opened by force of British, China became semi-feudalism country and anti-colonialism. The level of capitalist and laborer were created. **Finally, farmers rose in revolt many times.**

The advantage of opening Ningbo port is that today, Ningbo is one of the most famous hometowns of oversea Chinese, with 300thousand oversea Chinese with Ningbo domicile living in more than 50countries and regions. And they are making great contributions to economy of Ningbo.

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