Présentation Powerpoint de la séance 6 du cours "La Chine, des Mongols à l'après-maoïsme".

1. A. From the tribute system to modern
diplomacy
1. The Tribute-Trade System
2. The Canton Trade System
3. The changing image of China in the West
B. The Opium Wars
1.Between economics and politics: the sources
of the Opium Wars
2. From one war to the next: The era of unequal
treaties
C. Treaty ports
1. Treaty ports, extraterritoriality and settlements
2. Shanghai: Winner of the Opium Wars ?

5. China’s tributary countries under the Qing
Annam (annually, every three years on average)[2]
Burma (17 times, most of them in the 19th century)
Dzungars (1681, 1685, 1735, 1738, 1742, 1743, 1745, 1746, 1752, and
1753)
Great Britain (1793, no tribute presented in 1795, 1805, and 1816)
Khanate of Kokand (between 1774–1798)
Kirgiz (1757 and 1758)
Korea (three or four times a year; 435 embassies, 1637-1881
Laos (17 times)
Netherlands (1663(?), 1667, 1686, and 1795).
Nepal (1732(?), 1792, 1794, 1795, 1823, 1842, and 1865)
Portugal (1670, 1678, 1752, and 1753)
Ryukyu (every two years on average, 122 times in total between 1662 and
1875)
Siam (48 times, most of them after 1780)
Sikkim (since 1791 )
Sulu (1726, 1733, 1743, 1747, 1752, 1753, and 1754)
Turpan (1673 and 1686)

6. Canton (Guangzhou)

7. Les factories

8. Les factories à Canton (Guangzhou)

9. A drawing depicts British Consul at Canton Harry Parkes with
Co-Hong merchants in 1857.

11. A British 19th-century view of the Opium war

20. Importation d’opium en Chine
Unité: chest (1 chest=approx. 150 lbs.)