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Discuss the different attitudes between China and Japan regarding the Opium trade. Western Imperialism in South East Asia resulted in the expansion of the opium trade. Opium was the commodity colonising nations used to further financial gains and open trade routes. China and Japan were altered economically as a result of the opium trade. Changes in production, alliances between government and business, aswell as traditional social and political institutions were affected. European 'free trade' and attempts to exclude the foreign opium trade led to greater threats of Western Imperialism. Chinese and Japanese empires were forced to modernise, forced to adhere to unfair treaties and forced into dealing with this new commodity. Both countries having different cultural heritages, and weakness' within thier societies and responded to the opium trade and western domination differently. Early attempts from Western powers to commercially enter China and Japan were rejected. Both the Chinese and Japanese felt...

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