The Boxer Rebellion – General

www.eurekacouncil.com.au — During the nineteenth century the major European powers compelled the reluctant Chinese Empire to start trading with them.

There was little the Chinese government wanted from the West at the time but in the Opium Wars of the 1860s the British had forced the Chinese to accept the import of opium in return for Chinese goods, and foreign trading centres at major ports. The largest of these was Shanghai, where French, German, British, and American merchants demanded large tracts of land in which they asserted "extra-territorial" rights, meaning they were subject to the laws of their own country and not China. In Shanghai a legendary sign in a park near one of the European compounds read: "No dogs or Chinamen".

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Stuart 1 year 46 weeks ago

I think you just hit the world record for tags, wdbox.

My students asked me for a lesson on British history and culture once. I omitted any mention of the Boxers or opium from the slideshow, which was pointed out at the end of the presentation. During the discussion that followed some students seemed to feel that I owed China an apology on my country's behalf. In this they were - and always will be - entirely mistaken.

wdbox 1 year 46 weeks ago

You got lucky, Stewart. The students might have asked you to apologize for what Britain has become, rather than for what she once was. :)

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