Chinese Under Imperialism essays

Chinese Under Imperialism essays In the 19th Century, countries around the world had been experiencing a disturbing trend. At their own expense, Western powers invaded their lands to obtain personal profit, even if that meant exploiting the natives. This was apparent in Africa, as European countries rushed to obtain as much territory as they could, and divided the country as if it were nothing more than just an uninhabited wasteland. It did not end in Africa, as the Europeans turned toward the Middle Kingdom and its immense riches. At the cost of Chinas economy, Britain prospered as it gained considerable amounts of tea and silver, by merely trading a cheap drug called Opium. This is where I come in, my name is Ching. I live outside the Great Wall, the ghetto of china. I was hired by the British to drug run all their merchandise into the city. It was a dangerous job but I was making good money. I usually wouldnt take a job like this but my family was starving. One day as I was walking across the green sunny hills just north of Jingcharok I was stopped in my tracks by the call of a wild animal. The growl was like something I had never heard before! It was that of a savage beast! I saw it as it came running out of the undergrowth towards me, it was huge, ten feet tall if it was an inch. Its mouth was full of rows of razor sharp teeth and the largest eyes I had ever seen. It then spoke to me these words Resist the British from our lands, defend ancient China. It was just about this time that I woke up, it seems that some of my friends had been playing a joke on me and had put a kilo of opium in my rice that morning, none the less I was sure that the vision I saw were a warning. From that dream I discerned my destiny. I was to become a pokemon master and fight the British with my pokemon. First I set out to capture some good ones, but wait! Pokemon do not exist! I would have to fight the British with guns! So I went down to the hardw ...