Read and answer as your QOD-

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Read and answer as your QOD-

• Life is good for you as a member of the local
  government in 19th-century China, but it could be
  even better. People from the West are eager to
  trade with your country. China, however, produces
  all that its people need, and government
  officials discourage contact with foreigners.
  Many foreign products, such as ceramics, are
  inferior to Chinese goods. The foreigners,
  however, do offer items that can improve your
  life, including rifles, cameras, and small sticks
  called matches that can be scraped against a rock
  to start a fire. You are curious about
  inventions. But you wonder why the foreigners
  are so eager to trade with China and what they
  hope to gain. Would you trade with the
  foreigners? Why or Why not?

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Ming and Qing Dynasties

• Practiced isolationism
• Did not want influence from the West
• Put trade restrictions and regulations on trade
  from the West
• Were self-sufficient
• Not interested in
• strange objects

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Chinas Self-sufficiency

• Agricultural economy
• Mining and manufacturing industry- salt, tin,
  silver, iron.
• Produced silks, cottons, and fine porcelain
• SO- they had little interested in trading with
  the West
• How do the European get the Chinese to increase
  trade with them?

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Opium!

• Had been used in China for
• medicinal purposes
• British smuggled it in for non-medicinal uses
• By 1835, 12 million Chinese were addicted to the
  drug. Almost all men under 40 smoked it.
• Europeans- trade deficit to trade surplus.

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Trade leads to war

• Opium caused great social, moral, and monetary
  problems for China.
• Emperor desired to stop trade, British refused.
• Opium War in 1839 between the Chinese and British

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The Opium War

• Battles took place at sea
• Chinese no match for the British and are easily
  defeated
• 1842- Treaty of Nanjing

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Treaty of Nanjing

• British get
• Hong Kong
• Access to more Chinese ports
• Extraterritorial rights- U.S. and other
  foreigners have exemption from Chinese law at
  four Chinese ports. (Chinese resented this
  privilege and the foreigners)
• Trade of opium continues

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Problems

• Population increasing, food production remaining
  the same, so..
• People are hungry and unhappy
• Taiping Rebellion
• 1 million peasant rebel forces
• Wanted an equal and peaceful China
• Captured large areas of Southern China
• By 1864, the 14 year rebellion was crushed
• Farmland destroyed, 20 million died

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Influence in China

• Sphere of Influence- a region in which a foreign
  nation controls trade and investments
• Open Door Policy- Chinas doors open to
  merchants of all nations

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Boxer Rebellion

• Poor peasants and workers resented foreigners
• Began a campaign against the Empress and
  foreigners
• Boxers attacked European section of Beijing- were
  eventually defeated by the Euro.

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Boxer Rebellionhttp//www.youtube.com/watch?vF4Q
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Effects of the Boxer Rebellion

• Chinese Boxers lost but,
• A strong sense of nationalism had emerged
• China must resist foreign intervention
• The government must become responsive to the
  needs of the people