Because the Qing dynasty carried out no reform after the Opium War,China suffered from poverty and weakness in early modern times. A comprehensive analysis of the life of Zhang Xi,a powerful minister of the Qing dynasty,and that historical period reveals that the conceptual and institutional facto...
The tract portrayed an apocalyptic China that recalled recent events. The violent First Opium War against Great Britain, fought from 1839 to 1842, ended with the Treaty of Nanjing that damaged imperial prestige and allowed the British many advantages. It had the side effect of allowing an influx...
Though far from the main fighting, California made an outsized contribution to the Union victory, mostly in the form of gold and troops. Read more How Civil War Medicine Led to America’s First Opioid Crisis Many soldiers who received opioids in hospitals continued to use opium and morphine ...
M.S. Agwani of the Jawaharlal Nehru School of International Studies stated as much in the October-December 1980 issue of the Schools Quarterly Journal citing a number of complicating factors that support the Afghan trap thesis: “Our own conclusion from the foregoing is twofold. First, the Sovi...
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The Timing Conditions of the outbreak of war between Small States by the Power Vacuum and the Power Projection from Super Powers I have three critical minds. first, why have not we been interested in the external conditions for small nations to initiate the war, focusing on an internal dispute...
Opium Wars, two mid-19th-century armed conflicts between China and Western countries. The first Opium War (1839–42) was fought between China and Britain; the second Opium War (1856–60), also known as the Arrow War or the Anglo-French War in China, was
that recalled recent events. The violent First Opium War against Great Britain, fought from 1839 to 1842, ended with the Treaty of Nanjing that damaged imperial prestige and allowed the British many advantages. It had the side effect of allowing an influx of Christian missionaries into the ...
First Sino-Japanese War, conflict between Japan and China in 1894–95 that marked the emergence of Japan as a major world power and demonstrated the weakness of the Chinese empire. The war grew out of conflict between the two countries for supremacy in K