The Opium War(鸦片战争)
农村社保政策-企业工作总结
Events
20,000 chests of Opium
seized by Chinese
Battle at Chinkiang
British and American sailors kill a chinaman
British capture Bogue forts
British
expelled and travelled to Hong Kong
British
occupiedheights overlooking Canton
British
refuse to give up culprit
Chinese defeated at
Ningpo and Chinhai
Chinese Emperor attempts to
stamp out Opium
Convention of Cheunpi
Failure of Chinese counter-offensive
First
Opium War
HMS Hyacinth and Volage repell 29
war junks
Shanghai was occupied without a
fight
The Treaty of Nanking
The Opium War
Early
in the 19th cent, British merchants began
smuggling opium into China in order
to balance
their purchases of tea for export to Britain.
The Opium War, also called the Anglo-Chinese
War, was the most humiliating
defeat China
ever suffered. 1839–42 and 1856–60, two wars
between China and
Western countries.
The
first was between Great Britain and China. In
1839, China enforced its
prohibitions on the
importation of opium by destroying at Guangzhou
(Canton) a
large quantity of opium confiscated
from British merchants. Great Britain, which had
been looking to end China's restrictions on
foreign trade, responded by sending
gunboats
to attack several Chinese coastal cities. China,
unable to withstand modern
arms, was defeated
and forced to sign the Treaty of Nanjing (1842) .
These provided
that the ports of Guangzhou,
Jinmen, Fuzhou, Ningbo, and Shanghai should be
open
to British trade and residence; in
addition Hong Kong was ceded to the British.
In 1856 a second war broke out following an
allegedly illegal Chinese search of
a British-
registered ship, the Arrow, in Guangzhou. British
and French troops took
Guangzhou and Tianjin
and compelled the Chinese to accept the treaties
of Tianjin
(1858), to which France, Russia,
and the United States were also party.
Lin
Tse-hs
Deeply concerned about the opium
menace, Lin Tse-hs maneuverd himself into
being appointed Imperial Commissioner at
Canton to cut off the opium trade at its
source by rooting out corrupt officials and
cracking down on British trade in the drug.
There was a sensational event commonded by
him: Burning of Opium Stocks in
Humen(beach).Of all the imperial officials,
however, Lin was the first to realize the
momentuous lesson of the Opium War. He was
called the first person who opened
eyes to see
the world in Chinese history. On the website,there
is a Memorial Hall of
Lin can send flowers to
him on the website. His famous saying
is:苟利国
家生死以，起因祸福必趋之。