PRESENTER:'Here in this room in Nanking, 'they negotiated the first ... Opium was grown in British India, and smuggled into China. The Chinese resisted the opium trade. This led to war, after ...

which became known as the Opium Wars, pitted China against the British Empire. The first began in 1839, when Britain launched a military expedition to force China to open its market to Indian ...

The result was the “First Opium War,” in which Britain won a resounding victory. As a consequence, Chinese ports were forcibly opened to British trade, including the opium trade. China was ...