British Orientalism - What Is It?

Britain engaged in a mass of war for most, for a lot large part of 19 century with china called the opium wars. Britoin basically wanted to trade with china because china had a shiton of goods that europe wanted,. mainly tea, silk, porcelain. Opium is, it's heroine, basically. It's not heroine, but it's what heroine comes from. Now all of a sudden, china needed opium, because there was opium attics in china. So now the brits were like, great. Yeu need opium. And now you need this.