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Please respond to the following, using sources bulleted as the basis of your response:
Describe the key motives involved in the increased presence of Westerners in India, China, and Japan in the 1700s and 1800s. Identify the key factors that led to Britain's successful imposition of its presence and trade policies on China, despite communications like those from Emperor Ch'ien-lung (i.e., Qianlong) and Commissioner Lin Zexu (i.e., Lin Tse-hsu). Argue for or against the British policies regarding China in the 1800s, using analogies from our own modern times.
- The Opium Wars and Foreign Encroachment: http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/special/china_1750_opium.htm
- Opium Wars with visuals at http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027/opium_wars_01/ow1_essay01.html
- Key documents from China at http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1793qianlong.asp and http://acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~phalsall/texts/com-lin.html
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Opera and Society and a Dilemma
In the 1700s and 1800s, the number of the Westerners in the Eastern
countries increased. The Westerners came to the East to carry out a trade. Among
the commodities that westerners brought to the Eastern region were opium, and fur
and woolen fabrics. However, opium was the primary product that westerners took
to the Eastern Region because it fetched higher profits compared to other trade
commodities. In the eighteenth century, China was unyielding and was able to
resist the introduction of opium in the region. Lin notes that the Barbarians had
commercial contact with China for an extended period. Some of the Barbarians
began to smuggle opium to China with the aim of accumulating their profits. They
had little concern about th...
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