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- 1793 British ambassador kneeled on only one knee rather than the full kowtow
- Supported converting Chinese to western ways
- Chiense didn’t want British trade goods and they attempted to control British trade in China
- Opium Wars
- Unfair trade between Chinese and Britain
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Taiping Rebellion
- Hoped to give China back to its people
- Over a million dead, crushed by Qing with help of British and French military forces
- Began when an anti-foreign and anti-Christian
- From 1900-1901
- Chinese revolutionary, and eventually the first president of the Republic of China