In 1839, Lin Zexu wrote The letter to Queen Victoria, in attempt to stop the evolving addiction to opium in China. The letter expressed China's desire for a peaceful resolution to the opium trade. He the limited and quite incorrect knowledge he had on the issue in hopes to gain sympathic understanding. Lin used Confucian teachings, historical events, plus forceful reasoning on moral grounds in order to persuade the English monarch that he would not ask of them anything he would not be comfortable
the extent in which Captain Charles Elliot’s actions the Kowloon Incident of July 1839 lead to the First Opium War. In order to assess this, the research will focus on the Kowloon Incident, the interests and actions of the Commissioner of Canton, Lin Zexu and the British Superintendent of Trade in China, Charles Elliot, the Chinese legal system and the question of extraterritoriality. The investigation will consist on books as sources, such as The Opium Wars: Drugs, Dreams and the Making of China
It is interesting to note that The Dream of red Chamber from the first chapter is presented as a story of enlightenment. It is described by Vanitas as a love story, but that is only a vehicle used to stimulate enlightenment through love. In the novel, Zhen Shiyin and Jia Zheng both become enlightened through their deep-rooted love for their children. However, characters such as Adamantina and Jia Jing illustrate contrasts to them. Neither of these characters attempt to achieve enlightenment through
A. Plan of Investigation The purpose of this study is to answer the question: To what extent did Chinese leaders display their power through the controlling of sex in the Chinese Cultural Revolution? This can give historians a better understanding of the extent to which the Chinese leaders controlled every aspect of the Chinese people's life. This is a fairly new subject because, as I will discuss later in the project, sex was silenced in the Cultural Revolution. (words:137) | B. Summary
Maya Lin is a driven and innovative artist of our time. Many of her works have been seen as controversial and received harsh criticism. She manages to trudge on. Her works express both an artistic and mathematical feel, somehow finding a beautiful marriage between. Her obsession with art and knowledge can be greatly attributed to her parents, as she was very successful at an early age. Her art career is one of many triumphs and breaking boundaries in the art world. Lin has a great love for nature
Maya Lin stated that “I felt a memorial should be honest about the reality of war, and be for the people who gave their lives.” Maya Lin, an undergraduate architect, designed the Vietnam Veterans Memorial for the support of veterans who fought in Vietnam. The 58,000 names on the memorial represent who served in the Vietnam War. The 21 year old girl’s design caused many controversies towards the memorial. The memorial had a significant impact on Americans that changed some of their views about the
Linzi Lynn is a self taught painter who is known for her color oriented acrylic paintings of people and animals. Linzi was born in London, England, but has been traveling the world ever since she was a kid. At age 11, Linzi was in the performing arts business as a singer and dancer, and was sent to a theatrical school by her parents when she began to demonstrate her many dramatic abilities. In 1973, Linzi started to channel her performing artistic creativity into acrylic painting. By using her theatrical
so that everyone in the country saw him as the best person on Earth. Even after the transformation, Mao still did not want anyone to prevent him from ruling the country as a single supreme figure, so he eventually undermined his so-called successor Lin Biao as well. After all these years of struggle, Mao became extremely ill and past away in September 9, 1976.
Lin is an important public figure of this decade, yet it is awful that it has taken years for an Asian American to be a part of the NBA. In the documentary, Lin demonstrated that even as an underdog he never gave up, and he had many reasons why he should have. Lin is also perceived as a someone with many financial difficulties, but in reality he had all the resources to be successful: parent’s support, financial support, education support, and athletic support. The documentary is biased because it
aluminum tubing, Maya Lin outlines a 3-D landscape of the submerged Mid Atlantic Ridge. By grounding viewers in a gallery, she is able to recreate massive parts of our earth on an architectural scale. Viewers can connect with the piece by moving through and under the work and
sacrifice and great achievements. A contributing factor that agencies and groups should consider when building a monument is the purpose. When Maya Lin, an architect, was planning to design the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington DC, she believed that "the use of names was a way to bring back everything someone could remember about a person" (Source G). Lin decided to choose names rather than photos or pictures because visual arts will not be able to describe what every veteran has done during the
What makes a good monument, is it the size, the location, the materials, or the interaction with nature? All of these things can be attributed to the formation of a wonderful monument and or statue, but are they key deciding factors of whether not a group or agency should build a statue / monument. Personally i believe that there are very different things that make a statue great, those can be, how the statue interacts with its environment, how it represent history, and how significant it is to society
The Opium War The Opium War, directed by Jin Xie, paints a rather impartial account of the Opium War, starting with the appointment of Lin Zexu to end the opium trade in China to the signing of the Treaty of Nanking. This film seemed to fairly depict the faults of both the Chinese and the British during the 1830’s and up to 1842. That said, The Opium War illustrated two important factors that both helped to promote the conflict and eventual military confrontation between China and Britain. The first
Lin Zexu even sent a concerning and passionate letter to Queen Victoria to explain that China had the right to ban opium because Britain had a ban too. In his letter, he said, “Let your highness immediately, upon the receipt of this communication, inform
Gregorio Lopez Mr. Locks British Lit 4/7/14 The First Opium War and its aftermath on Chinese To the normal Chinese man during the early 19th century, opium was nothing more than a luxury that only those of higher power or influence could indulge themselves in. Yet by the middle of the 19th century opium had become a commodity that everyone could have and that at the same time they seemed to need. Even though it was now such a big part of the normal chinese culture, it did not benefit the people nor
social problem in China, causing Commissioner Lin (Lin Zexu) to write a letter to Queen Victoria in 1839, to fix the issue. In this letter, it is present that Commissioner Lin is sinophilic, and proves that China believes they are the center of every. Context clues of the words, “the Central land” being used multiple times in ways that put China on top of the world.
It is impossible to explore the culture of the East, of China especially, without encountering the importance of tea. China has a long tradition of tea drinking, and was responsible for acquainting the East and the West. Tea gained popularity throughout the Western world, particularly in Britain, and demand for it increased, China entered a challenging period in their history. Exploring this story shows tea as a social, economic, and political commodity, the catalyst for this conflict and change
rulers felt that drug importation throughout other countries was immoral for their economic and social status. China’s commissioner for foreign trade, Lin Zexu wanted to stop the illegal importation of opium into his country. Lin saw that the opium trade was damaging the publics health and was bleeding China of its wealth. The emperor of Manchu had given Lin extensive power and ordered him to control the demand of China’s people for opium and force the barbarian merchants to cut off the supply. Throughout
the time. Along with many other members of imperial court profited from the trade in the form of bribes or as smugglers themselves. The opium trade had thoroughly corrupted the Chinese government as much as it had destroyed its citizens’ health. Lin first wrote a letter to Queen Victoria, he said, China offered its finest goods to British, such as tea, silk, and silver but got nothing but poison in return. He queried the Queen, Opium smoking is strictly forbidden in England because the harm caused
disapproving than violent sentiment toward the British can also be seen in Lin Zexu’s letter to Queen Victoria where Zexu claims that “they may not intend to harm others on purpose… they are so obsessed with material gain that they have no concern whatever for the harm they can cause” (Document 1). Zexu’s more subdued point of view could be that she is writing to the Queen of England, and thus shows respect, or that Zexu is less aggravated than some of her fellow Chinese neighbors on the effects