Rise and Fall of the British Empire

China and the Opium Wars (1x13)

Yayınlanma tarihi: Oca 01, 2009

Witness the mid-19th century collision between the British policy of free trade (logical for a nation that enjoyed industrial and nautical supremacy) and the closed culture of the Chinese. It was a collision China could not win, as Britain used its military might to impose total domination on China and compelled it to accept the lucrative opium trade.