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Account for the British wars with China of 1839-42 and 1858-60.
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Florence Yu November 2003 HS2278 Britain, the US and the decline of the West in East Asia Account for the British wars with China of 1839-42 and 1858-60. The two famous Anglo-Chinese wars in the nineteenth century were not only the first wars fought between imperialist powers and the Far East. It moreover opened up the possibility of partitioning and drenching for concessions in the richly resourced China. Britain set an example for other imperialist powers to follow, including the newly risen Japan. M. Chamberlain claimed that 'a number of countries were glad to join Britain in putting pressure on the Chinese, who were still unwilling to open their country up freely to Europeans (after the Opium War)'1. La Feber called the Opium War of 1839-42 'a war that unsettled much of the Pacific's western rim, the powers scrambled for concessions'2. It set the tone for those to follow and came to carry greatest symbolic weight...
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