The+Opium+war+1839-1842

Conflict and Change Play Bill The Opium war/ The Angelo-Chinese War

CONFLICT: The Manchu emperors expanded their powers throughout Asia. They began supplying opium to different countries until everyone used opium for different reasons. The British continued trafficking heavy imports of opium and China within the 1830's. In 1839, China enforced its prohibitions on the importation of opium by destroying at Canton, a large quantity of opium taken from British merchants, but the opium trade still flourished. Other countries profited from Chinese addiction though. The British sent their troops to China and war began. In 1842 China and Great Britain agreed to the treaty of Nanjing to stop the conflict between the two countries about drug control.

CAST AND CREW:

MAJOR PLAYERS || REASONS FOR INVOLVEMENT ||
 * Lin Tse-hsü || Imperial Commissioner at Canton, attempted to shut down trafficked opium ||
 * Britain || Supplied and profited from the distribution of opium to China. ||
 * China || Produced the Opium and was the heart of the trade. ||
 * British Merchants || British merchants were angered by Chinese trade laws and refused to work with Chinese legal officials because of their routine use of torture. ||

MINI-BIOGRAPHIES OF MAJOR PLAYERS

Lin Tse- hsü - The main aspect of the Opium war. He wanted to stop the production and trade, so he wrote a letter to the queen of England as a request for it to end.the distributation of opium in China. She declined and he destoyed all the opium to start war.

Great Britian- the makers of opium profitted off China's use of the drug and tried to gain control of the trade off the Chinese had.

China- where opium was grown and used. China had controlled over trade in Asia for many years and used it to profit

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