wonder how the CCP teaches the white lotus rebellion very much wonder this
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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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most use was not to the extent of genuine or persistent harm, enforcement would be worse than the status quo (these were contemporary Chinese arguments), use had been endemic before British imports although Chinese sellers being able to call it Western added allure
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