![]() To solve the problem, the British found a “demoralizing drug” (Doc 4) The introduction of opium combined “injustice and baseness,” as Thomas Arnold, the professor in the University of Oxford, said. Instead, the need of Chinese tea, silk and porcelain made the Chinese wealthy. ![]() The British traders was unlikely to move the Chinese market by profiting from import. “There was nothing, the Chinese loftily replied to the British emissaries…There was plenty that the British wanted to buy from China, though, and by the 1780s, the British appetite for tea and Chinese indifference to British goods had produced a trade deficit that the East India Company began to fill by supplying opium grown in British Bengal.” (Doc 8) The point of view of this document is economically analytical.
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