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conflict between china and britain over the importation of drugs into china. This was important because at the end of the war britian got hong kong.
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14 year long peasant revolt against the weakening Qing Dynasty. This is important because it led to the great leap foward and the cultural revalution
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A rebellion during Qing dynasty aimed at kicking foreigners out of China. This is important because it stressed how much the people wanted the gonvernment to change.
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island given to Britain following the Opium War. It was returned to China in 1997
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site of 1989 student protests which were violently put down by the gonvernment
