British-Chinese Relations in the Nineteenth Century and Alicia Bewicke Little's Novel, A Marriage in China

England-China relationship in the 19th century and Alicia Bewick Little's novel, Chinese marriage took place in 1842. I failed. The first opium war reestablished the British profitable opium trade route from India to China, led Britain to dominate the new colony in Hong Kong and led the British relations to deal with various treaties We have established a new model. The harbor was under the control of the Semicolonial.

The main incentive of British imperialism in China in the 19th century was the economy. British market has big demand for Chinese tea, silk, porcelain. However, the UK does not have enough silver to trade with the Qing Empire. Therefore, in order to compensate for this payment problem, a barter system based on opium in India was established. Following the exponential growth of Chinese opium from 1790 to 1832, it brought on the generation of addicts and social instability. The conflict between the Qing government and British merchants eventually expanded to the notorious opium war. As a result, the British acquired trade rights at Hong Kong Island, Guangzhou and Shanghai ports. As in India and Africa, British imperialism has never been occupied by Chinese politics, but its cultural and political heritage is still evident today.

The big problem that influenced China in the 19th century was how to deal with other countries. Before the 19th century, the Chinese empire was a hegemon in Asia. Under his imperial theory, the Chinese emperor has the right to rule "all over the world". According to times and dynasties, it dominates the territory directly or belongs to a neighboring country under its hierarchical tributary system. Historians often call the basic concept of the Chinese empire "an empire with no border". However, as the European countries built a stronger economy based on maritime trade, the European empire of the 18th century gradually expanded to other parts of the world. Meanwhile, the Chinese empire has stagnated through the centuries of leadership. By the end of the eighteenth century, European colonies were established near India and now on islands belonging to Indonesia, while the Russian Empire annexed northern China.

Unlike South Asia, China has never joined the European Empire. However, as European forces of the 19th century (in particular the UK) were obliged to open up trade relations under distorted conditions, China faced the same inevitable fate as Japan; the initial export of China (which is the largest I have tea). China had to cope with the expansionism of Japan K240-41, 15 When the Qing Dynasty was ultimately defeated, despite its dominant power, the nominal republic (in fact the dictatorship) Was established. Subject to internal objections and competitors (Communist Party). This People's Republic of China was straddling about two world wars. Due to negligence and abuse of the agricultural population by the government, the government has maintained popularity in the city, but in the face of the wave of rural confusion, the country has become severely divided.