TR3.5

Ropp on China

Huxley 2021-09-27 Mon 12:00

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1 On China, Ropp. (63 - 70)

1.1 Fall + aftermath of the Qing Empire (1800 - 1920)

  • European powers competing for world dom through trade and warfare
  • chinese trade sucked
    • British traders became frustrated
    • But they liked the chinese products alot and were buying alot of them
  • Merchants ranked low in confucian vlue system
  • trade to the Qing gov was not for generationg wealth but rather more like a charity granted to the "barbarians"
    • In exchange, they would pay respects to the son of heaven and his court?
  • Led to bad trade conditions for the british merchants
  • denied british requests for better env, emporer said
    • standard emperor's command to his lowly subjects: "Tremblingly obey and show no negligence!"

    • fun.
  • The emperor's condescending attitude reflected how little he under stood the power realities of the world at the end of the eighteenth cen- tury.

  • Opium got added to the mix,
    • changed the flow from basicly soley china -> britin (tea) to britin -> chin (opium)
  • Opium addiction went crazy
  • Totally killed trade surplus
  • Chinese gov destroyed a bunch of opium, britian sent warships
  • Totally chrushed chinese forces
  • led to the british taking control over the policies, and increased opium trade a bunch
  • bunch of rebelions occured, see pg. 66.5
  • Japan beat the Qing in a war, got taiwan?
    • Becuase of this, other governments backed off on China out of fear that it would collapse
  • Also led to (lots of) civil unrest
  • Heavy westernization occured
  • reformers got crushed, conservatives seized control of the court
  • bunch o' dates and stuff about revolutionaries
  • Look how it ended on pg. 70!