Ch.28 China and the Rest of the World
The Kingdom at the Center of the World
Fir sixty years, the emperor Chi’en-lung (건륭제) had reigned over China.
In 1793, George III sent an ambassador to China to ask Emperor Chi’en-lung to change the Eight Regulations.
But China would not obey Britain’s commands.
The Rise of Opium Trade
Chi’en-lung had refused to let foreign ideas and merchants into his country, but he had not been able to keep the foreign poison Opium out.
