Ep. 6 | The Opium War

The China History Podcast

Laszlo Montgomery

Places & Travel, Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2010

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s episode, we give an overview of the First Opium War, one of the most humiliating events in Modern Chinese history. From this event that culminated in the first of many unequal treaties in 1842, China began a steady downhill slide and suffered a multitude of setbacks and insults from foreign powers eager to trade with China and build market share. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:53.0	Hi everyone, this is Lausla Montgomery and welcome to the China History Podcast.
0:59.0	Today we're looking at one of the most well-known topics from Chinese history, well here in the West at least,
1:05.4	few topics have received so much interest from the masses as this one. People at least
1:11.1	mildly familiar with Chinese history have all heard of the Opium War.
1:15.5	Today what I was hoping to do was offer a simple encapsulation of the history of this time.
1:21.5	The Opium Wars, plural, took place between 1839 and 1842 and again between 1856 and 1860.
1:33.0	China at that time seemed to be on an irreversible course to becoming the Dung-Yabing
1:39.5	Fu or the sick man of Asia.
1:42.0	Ching Dynasty China in the 19th century was comparatively weak and no match for the Western nations
1:49.5	who were benefiting from all the inventions and innovations of the Industrial Revolution that had been happening
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