And it was forced on them at the end of a gun. "At the end of the first Opium War in 1842, the British, who had bested the Chinese on the battlefield, forced upon them what has been referred to by many as the first of many unequal treaties. Kimberly Drooks Photography/Courtesy Liveright Eric Jay Dolin is also the author of Fur, Fortune, and Empire: the Epic History of the Fur Trade in America.
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