"hahaha stupid english couldnt speak chinese" yes the emperor had the last guy who tried to teach an englishman chinese beheaded and spread word of this jesus christ
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just listened to the story of the disastrous Amherst mission to Peking it was quite painful everyone was so fucking bad at diplomacy, cringe the whole way through they actually ended up shooting at each other for no clear reason then were too embarrassed to mention it later
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meanwhile the americans who were not laboring under a needless monopoly were just eating the local trade and vibing
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author is giving an overview of chinas opium culture and so far hes inadvertently making a really good case against chinas ban on opium and against western culpability in any way regardless not sure whether this is deliberate
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ok so basically the chinese banned western women from canton, and then the local director of the EIC brought his wife in and paraded her around in public everyone groaned they asked him to please for the love of god send her back to macau he threatened to land troops
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the EIC director eventually backed down but wrote back to England asking parliament to launch an invasion to avenge this slight to their credit parliament laughed his request out of its halls but still good god CALM DOWN DUDE
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