Saturday, September 28, 2013

Chapter 3 : Ancient Roots and Binding Traditions

Qing Dynasty
Qing Dynasty started 1636 to 1912, Beijing became the Qing capital city. After Ming Dynasty collapsed Dorgon established the Qing Dynasty as a direct successor of Ming. Qing Dynasty is the last Dynasty of China's United Dynasty. 

Opium War
In 18 century, the world addicted to opium. Opium made so much income for Britain for selling opium to Qing Dynasty. India was colony of Britain so Britain made a humongous opium farm in India. It made easy transportation rather than move exported opium from Britain to China. The government of China did not like their people got addicted to opium so they were trying to take all imported opium from drug dealer and to stop trading with Britain. But Britain could not leave China to stop trading with them because opium was the major income for them by exporting materials. So China and Britain went to a war and China defeated, because Britain has developed weapon, also, Chinese soldiers were addicted to opium already so they did not have energy to fight back. It is really said that the world got into a war because of useless drug.