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Questions for Consideration:
1. Why did the Qing Dynasty court prefer to contain and limit Western trade by restricting
it Guanzhou rather than open free trade like the Westerners wanted?
2. Disscuss the political,
social, and economic reason for the outbreak of the Opium War. What were
the consequences for China? For the West? Return
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