17
⚫ M. Greenberg (see bibliography).
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0
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It was mentioned in the Egyptian Papyrus of Ebers, c.2000 BC, and by the Greek Theophrastus, 3rd century BC.
M. Booth: Opium: A History, London 1996, p.104.
An inferior quality opium was grown in Zhejiang Province. Chinese government made efforts to suppress it (1831).
H.B.Morse: Trade and Administration of the Chinese Empire, New York, 1908, p.341.
'Imperialism' is used to describe the system whereby one nation acquires political and economic control over another less technologically developed nation. "Colonialism" is more difficult to define. Originally the term applied to a settlement of the subjects of a country in lands beyond its boundaries who remain subject to or connected with the parent state. However, in recent times the two terms have been used synonymously,
Greenberg, M., British Trade and the Opening of China 1800-42.
13 American firms Olyphant & Co, and Nathan Dunn & Co.; their strict Quaker moral principles prevented them from trading in opium.
14 Another, highly improbable, anecdote relates that Macartney asked the Emperor to enter into an alliance with Britain against the French, to which The Emperor allegedly replied that he was not concerned with the "barbarians' petty squabbles" outside his domain.
S
15 Secretary to the Court of Directors of the East India Company.
16 S. Bard: Traders of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 1993, p.30.
17 Anon.: China: Pictorial, Descriptive, and Historical, London 1853, p.231.
18 Reproduced by courtesy of Charlotte Horstmann & Gerald Godfrey Ltd., Hong Kong.
19 The belief probably had its origin in the prevalent practice in Europe of a 'seasonal
17
⚫ M. Greenberg (see bibliography).
X
0
10
It was mentioned in the Egyptian Papyrus of Ebers, c.2000 BC, and by the Greek. Theophrastus, 3rd century BC.
M. Booth: Opium: A History, London 1996, p.104.
An inferior quality opium was grown in Zhejiang Province. Chinese government made efforts to suppress it (1831).
H.B.Morse: Trade and Administration of the Chinese Empire, New York, 1908, p.341.
'Imperialism' is used to describe the system whereby one nation acquires political and economic control over another less technologically developed nation. "Colonialism" is more difficult to define. Originally the term applied to a settlement of the subjects of a country in lands beyond its boundaries who remain subject to or connected with the parent state. However, in recent times the two terms have been used synonymously,
Greenberg, M., British Trade and the Opening of China 1800-42.
13 American firms Olyphant & Co, and Nathan Dunn & Co.; their strict Quaker
moral principles prevented them from trading in opium.
14 Another, highly improbable, anecdote relates that Macartney asked the Emperor to enter into an alliance with Britain against the French, to which The Emperor allegedly replied that he was not concerned with the "barbarians' petty squabbles"
outside his domain.
S
15 Secretary to the Court of Directors of the East India Company.
16 S. Bard: Traders of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 1993, p.30.
17 Anon.: China: Pictorial, Descriptive, and Historical, London 1853, p.231.
18 Reproduced by courtesy of Charlotte Horstmann & Gerald Godfrey Ltd., Hong
Kong.
19 The belief probably had its origin in the prevalent practice in Europe of a 'seasonal
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