In the mid-1840's, following defeat by Britain in the first Opium War, a series of natural catastrophes occurred across China resulting in famine, peasant uprisings and rebellions. Understandably ...

PRESENTER:'Here in this room in Nanking, 'they negotiated the first ... Opium was grown in British India, and smuggled into China. The Chinese resisted the opium trade. This led to war, after ...

PRESENTER:'The greatest of them, the Taiping. PRESENTER:'In the 1840s, China was still the greatest state on Earth, 'but the first opium war had left the government weakened. PRESENTER:'They'd ...

How should we situate China within the global context prior to the First Opium War? Compared with the Dutch and the British ... Kitson, Forging Romantic China: Sino-British Cultural Exchange 1760–1840 ...