opium wars

Initially the Qing Dynasty only accepted silver in trade. To bypass this the British East India Company smuggled Opium into China. In 1839 China burned the company's Opium store house. The Company retailed with the world' first Iron steam-warship Nemesis. It captured Nanjing in 1842 and...

Opium in China has had an interesting and complicated history. Contrary to what some people will assume, Opium didn't suddenly appear out of a blue when the Europeans needed a better trade good with China. The drug actually has been in China since the Tang Dynasty, introduced by Arab merchants...

In the years leading up to the First Opium War, a debate occurred within the Qing government over how the opium problem should be addressed, with one side arguing for its legalization (so that the state could tax it and thus give some much needed cash to the treasury) and another for harsher...

Back in 1858 the Qings were fighting Hong's Taiping Heavenly Kingdom since 1850 and also where on the course of losing the Second Opium War, Seeing this context Russia threatened to invade if the Qings were not to cede the northern half of Outer Manchuria. Qing China agreed and ceded the...

In OTL, in Chinese History, the Century of Humiliation was a term used to describe the 19th Century for China To greatly simplify, It started when the Qing Dynasty had a war with the British, which happened because Opium through Bengal was becoming a problem in China. This all stems from trade...

how successful would a qing invasion of japan be in 1830 just before opium wars with preperations since 1800 ?

In this case I'm talking about Jiangsu, Tianjin, Beijing, Hong Kong and Guangdong. For those that don't think this would have been possible watch this. So including the above provinces the British get their demands, destroy China, have missionaries start to convert the population and sell...

Let's say that sometime after the First Opium War*, a rebellion against the Qing dynasty that's less... insane than the Taiping Rebellion erupts in China. How likely would the British be to support the rebels? *Using the OTL name, but an event like this might butterfly the Second Opium War, so...

With no PoDs prior to 1661, how can this trade policy of the Qing be avoided, or at least delayed 75 years or more; and what would be the effects, on the Chinese economy and the world at large?

We all know China's history in the 19th century wasn't too rosy. It was faced by corruption, rebellion (e.g. the Taiping), the Opium Wars, Western imposed unequal treaties, free trade, extraterritoriality, treaty ports under foreign control, foreign concessions on Chinese soil (Hong Kong...