When Trade Wars Turned Bloody: The Opium War with Stephen Platt
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McCartney's Visit to the Emperor of China
The Chinese aren't really interested in all at the British goods and their scientific advances. The emperor himself had a huge collection of English clocks, he had written poems about English products like glass. So essentially there's this cosmopolitanism in there where they're already familiar with all of these products that the British are trying to awe them with.
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