First Opium War begins over opium ban

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• Political Order and Political Decay whole source · open book

  China’s “century of humiliation” began in 1839 when the Qing government tried to ban imports of opium and were forced by the British to open their ports during the First Opium War.

  chapter: Chapter 24: The Struggle for Law in China

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