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A Lost Nation



Krystal Hofacker
WOH 1030
What was the cause of the disintegration of China? A number of factors contributed to the spiraled downfall that ultimately destroyed their dynasty. Was it the Opium War that greatly affected China’s international position? The Taiping Rebellion that destroyed six hundred cities and killed more than twenty million people? Or was it their corrupted government system? All of these events as a whole created a time of “rebellion, lawlessness, and foreign exploitation” (Andrea, 345) that plagued the Qing regime until the Revolution of 1911.
Around 1839, Lin Zexu, an official of Emperor Daoguang, was sent to Guangzhou to morally persuade the people of China to stop the use and sale of opium. Zexu wrote a formal letter to Queen Victoria of England urging her to prohibit the manufacture and sale of the drug… but with the letter never being received, it forced Zexu to take more extreme measures, which led to the Opium War with......

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