Windstar Cruises

Ross Arnold, Spring 2018

Opium Wars

and the Boxer Rebellion

Japan & North Pacific Crossing

• A Brief History of China

• China vs. China

• China’s Treasure Ships

• The Great Wall

• Opium Wars & the Boxer Rebellion

• Silk Road Empires

• *Expedition Lecture: Navigation*

• Brief History of Korea & the Korean Conflict

• Eskimos & Inuit

• Arctic Explorers

• Iditarod: Dogs of the North

Opium ships at Lintin, China, 1824

Gov. Lin Ze-xu destroys

British opium

The First Opium War – 1839-42

The

Treaty of

Nanking forced

Chinese

concessions

The Second Opium War – 1856-60

The Boxer Rebellion

1899-1901

8-Nation Alliance

Boxer Defeat & Summary

Executions

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