This was also during peak of the British empire, who controlled land all over the world. In China the british saw great opportunity, a huge economy and population to profit from, and so they started to sneak-import opium into China in order to get the population addicted, and when the chinese rejected and attacked opium ships, the British had an excuse to attack. This led the the Opium wars, which the british won, and forced the Chinese to sign unfair treaties that gave the british power over …show more content…
Some of the most persuasive points were that the British ended some patriarchal practices such as foot-binding, along with giving chinese women more rights. They also brought new european ideas to chinese education, china already had a complex education system but European science and technology had surpassed Chinese and so they brought new ideas and concepts to Chinese education. The British also forced China into participating largely in the global market, at the time only profiting the British but in the long run allowing China to develop into a great world