PRESENTER:'Here in this room in Nanking, 'they negotiated the first ... Opium was grown in British India, and smuggled into China. The Chinese resisted the opium trade. This led to war, after ...

The First Opium War lasted from 1839 to 1842 ... The Xinhai Revolution came very suddenly in 1911. Soldiers in Wuchang revolted and other cities quickly joined them. The revolutionaries declared ...

beginning with the First Opium War of 1839-42. In the first half of the 19th century, the British government faced an economic problem. Imports of tea, porcelain and silk from China had created a ...