Opium Wars
The following Western nation signed the Treaty of Nanking with China in 1842.
What is Britain/England/the United Kingdom?
The Qing Dynasty is also known as this moniker.
What is the Manchu?
The following is the name of a Chinese religious cult that existed dating back to the Song Dynasty in the 1100s.
What is the White Lotus Society?
This was the title of the military leader who ruled Japan under the Emperor during the Tokugawa Shogunate.
Who is the Shogun?
This distinguished historian remarked that while opium was the immediate cause of the Opium Wars, conflict was inevitable due to underlying differences in foreign relations and trade between China and the West.
The Treaty of Whampoa
Under this system, the Emperor traded gifts with foreign visitors.
What is the tribute system?
What is the Manchu/Qing Dynasty?
Who are Christian missionaries?
This historian emphasized the role of Christianity in the Taiping Rebellion, stating "[i]ts followers were 'outsiders'".
Who is Rana Mitter?
This 1856 incident featured China charging the crew of a British ship with piracy, in an effort to resist foreign influence.
What is the Arrow Incident?
Foreign trade was limited to this area during the Qing Dynasty.
What is Canton?
This Taiping Rebellion leader had delirious dreams after failing the civil service exam four times.
Who is Hong Xiuquan/the brother of Jesus?
This European nation first introduced guns and Christianity to Tokugawa Japan.
What is Portugal?
In the eloquent words of this historian, "to hold Nanjing was to hold the Qing empire by the throat.”
Who is Julia Lovell?
This Qing Emperor refused British envoy Lord Elgin's request to negotiate in person prior to the Second Opium War.
This dynasty was replaced by the Qing Dynasty in the 18th century.
Dutch merchants were restricted to trading in this Japanese port city.
What is Nagasaki?
This Harvard PhD attributed the outbreak of war to China's attempt to simultaneously maintain the tribute system while suppressing the opium trade.
Who is JK Fairbank?
China ceded this peninsula, across from Hong Kong, to Britain in the Convention of Peking, following the Second Opium War.
What is the Kowloon Peninsula?
This Brit advocated for England's exclusive access to China's trade ports, among other benefits.
Who is Lord Macartney?
This corrupt advisor to Emperor Qianlong embezzled money earmarked to fight the rebels during the White Lotus Rebellion.
Who is Heshen?
This medical practice was introduced to Japan by Dutch doctors.
What is autopsy?
What is "a very charismatic character"?