The Professor of English Language and Literature at Brock University specifically notes that the First Opium War, fought between China and the British Empire from 1839–1842, began as a trade ...

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 ...

The result was the “First Opium War,” in which Britain won a resounding victory. As a consequence, Chinese ports were forcibly opened to British trade, including the opium trade. China was ...