opium wars

Macao, which had been leased to the Portuguese from 1557 till the eve of the Opium Wars, has turned into a leading international trade city.

The British forces had been aggressing and harassing Dalian during the two opium wars.

More importantly, she explains how China has turned the Opium Wars into a founding myth of its struggle for modernity.

Mr Zhou says his Chinese clients are fascinated that such a titchy island once ran such a large empire and dared start the Opium wars.

The exhibit discusses the Opium Wars that took place in the middle of the 19th century.

Yes China was always targeted by the Europeans for expansion. The Opium Wars are a perfect example.

Chairman Mao also blamed Western aggression at the time of the Opium Wars for China's decline.

A topic of choice is the Opium Wars, those 19th-century skirmishes on the far-eastern fringe of the British empire.

At the end of the Opium Wars in 1860, British and French troops looted the palace buildings and burned them down.

Hit by two Opium Wars and the Taiping Heavenly Movement, the rulers of the Qing Dynasty felt the deeping crisis .

But the Opium Wars are always there, lurking in the Chinese subconscious, perpetuating the tension between pride and victimhood.

During his visit to Britain this week, Wen Jiabao, China's premier, was too polite to mention the opium wars directly.

Gave birth to two Opium Wars, a new foreign institutions - the establishment of Yamen.

As for the Opium Wars, a strictly legal perspective is ludicrous .

Even the mighty China was succumbing to western hegemony in the opium wars.

isn't it time we stopped blaming the opium wars and the west for China's environmental problems?

If China wanted to become civilised she would forgive the angles for the Opium Wars and the Japanese for WW2.

The Opium Wars ring any bells for you?

For the Chinese, poppies are a reminder of the humiliating Opium wars of the 19th century.

Figure 2: A battle scene from the Opium Wars from the mid-nineteenth century.

Modern factory system appeared originally in Europe, which was imported into China after the Opium Wars.

The Hong Kong Cemetery, founded in 1845, is one of its oldest Christian cemeteries, offering a full picture of the two opium wars.

Hong Kong was British Colony occupied for opium wars, exploitations.

relief series of Opium Wars. Humen Naval Battle Museum. Guangdong