Opium and Diplomacy
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Opium and Diplomacy
https://doi.org/10.3735/9781961844605.book.part.039

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Abstract

By the mid-nineteenth century Qing China was in crisis. The Qing had been unable to deal with the consequences of a new import from British India: opium. Despite efforts by the government to ban the use of the drug, the profits made through the drug trade were so lucrative that opium smuggling became pervasive. Qing attempts to stop the trade led to two conflicts: the First Opium War (1839–1842) and the Second Opium War (1856–1860).

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