Name: 帝国主義。クラッシュ・コース 世界史 第35回 (Imperialism: Crash Course World History #35)
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and today we’re going to discuss 19th century Imperialism.

So, the 19th century certainly didn’t invent the Empire,

about to be overtaken by Europe but still heavily involved in world trade,

especially as an importer of silver from the Spanish Empire.

they didn’t really produce anything else the Chinese wanted.

And that state of affairs continued through the 18th century.

the McCartney mission tried to get better trade conditions with China

Here’s the Qianlong emperor’s well-known response to the British:

Hitherto, all European nations, including your

own country's barbarian merchants, [yowser]

have carried on their trade with our Celestial Empire at Canton.

Such has been the procedure for many years,

although our Celestial Empire possesses all things in prolific abundance and

found something that the Chinese would buy:

By the 1830s British free trade policy unleashed a flood of opium in China,

which threatened China’s favorable balance of trade.

the Chinese responded to what they saw as these unfair trade practices with

a stern letter that they never actually sent. [opium: not a productivity aid]

that contained a memorable threat to cut off trade in “Rhubarb, tea and silk…

all valuable products of ours, without which foreigners could not live.”

this terrifying threat to their precious rhubarb supply,

because selling drugs is super lucrative. [newsflash in any era]

So the Chinese made like tea partiers, [tri-corn hats and all?]

confiscating a bunch of British opium and chucking it into the sea.

[This is sounding like a Hunter S. Thompson hallucination…]

the British responded to this by demanding compensation

and access to Chinese territory where they could carry out their trade.

“Man, that seems a little bit harsh,”

whereupon the British sent in gunships, opening trade with Canton by force.

Chinese General Yijing made a counterattack in 1842 that included

a detailed plan to catapult flaming monkeys onto British ships—

apparently the plans involved strapping fireworks to monkeys’ backs

and were never carried out. But, still...

obviously I don’t want anyone to light monkeys on fire.

I’m just saying that flaming monkeys lend themselves to a lot of great band names,

sometimes I feel like I should give up teaching World History

and just become a band name generator. That’s my real gift.

due to lack of monkey fireworks, the Chinese counterattacks were unsuccessful.

And they eventually signed the Treaty of Nanjing,

which stated that Britain got Hong Kong and five other treaty ports,

as well as the equivalent of $2 billion in cash.

Also, the Chinese basically gave up all sovereignty to

wherein Europeans were subject to their laws, not Chinese laws.

In exchange for all of this, China got a hot slice of nothing.

You might think the result of this war would be

a shift in the balance of trade in Britain’s favor,

In fact, the British were importing so much tea from China

that the trade deficit actually rose more than $30 billion.

(and one of the most destructive civil rebellions in Chinese

and possibly world history, the Taiping Rebellion)

the situation was reversed and Europeans, especially the British

became the dominant economic power in China.

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帝国主義。クラッシュ・コース世界史第35回 (Imperialism: Crash Course World History #35)

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帝国主義。クラッシュ・コース 世界史 第35回 (Imperialism: Crash Course World History #35)

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lot

want

帝国主義。クラッシュ・コース世界史第35回 (Imperialism: Crash Course World History #35)