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China in a nutshell

By LD3
  • Period: to

    The Opium War

    The Chinese were upset over British merchants smuggling opium into China for nonmedical use. So they had a war over it.

  • Treaty of Nanjing

    This gave Britain Hong Kong after the Chinese were defeated in the Opium War

  • Taiping Rebellion

    This guy, Hong, makes an army to rebel against China. It didn't work, but almost did.

  • China's population reaches 430 million.