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Who knows about the history of the War in China

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The Opium War (Hanyu Pinyin: Yapian Zhanzheng; English: Opium War) was a war launched by Britain to invade China from the 20th to the 22nd year of Daoguang (1840-1842). The fuse of the war was that the British East India Company smuggled opium in Guangdong, China for more than 40 years. The Treaty of Nanking came to an end. The British often referred to the First Opium War as the First Anglo-Chinese War or the 'Commercial War'.

The Opium War ended with China losing and ceding territory with reparations. China and the United Kingdom signed the Treaty of Nanjing, the first unequal treaty in Chinese history to humiliate the country. China began to cede territory, pay indemnities, and negotiate tariffs with foreign countries, which seriously endangered China's sovereignty, began to become a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society, lost its independent status, and promoted the disintegration of the small-scale peasant economy. At the same time, the Opium War also opened a new chapter in the history of the modern Chinese people's resistance to foreign aggression.

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