They wanted to avoid the Western influence in their society. After the Opium Warswith the English it is not astonishing. They had the whole country enslaved to opium in order to be able to do their business. Apart from that the Chinese have always been real paranoiac in this aspect. They refused trading with Genghis Khan on a friendly base and thus provoked him to invade their country.
The Gai-Jin or foreign devil was never welcome in China and it is a fact that most of those who did enter their country brought them very little and mostly tried to exploit them one way or another.
China didnt trade with outsiders because they were afraid that trading would change their culture. For example, if china was to trade with a country who belived in the culture of not respecting their elderly then china would believe that culture has made an impression on their country that already has "beneficial laws" for their country.so as you see china just wanted to stay the same so they couldlive the way THEIR laws intended.
I thinks it cause they wouldn't pay submission..
opium
China was a very traditional society and other the reign of the Kangxi Emperor and his grandson China had the military means to reject a British offer for trade without the threat of having colonized. The Kangxi Emperor considered European goods to be far inferior to those made by the Chinese. If you are referring to the later opium trade, then China refused to allow the trade because it began to see the effects of the drug on the people of China. However, after the Opium wars china was forced by the British to reopen its opium trade.
China believed it was self-sufficient and didn't need outside goods.
China rejected British offers to trade primarily due to their disdain for British opium imports, which were causing widespread addiction and social issues in China. The Chinese government also viewed British demands for more favorable trade terms as disrespectful and an encroachment on their sovereignty. Additionally, the Chinese authorities were concerned about maintaining social stability and protecting their traditional Confucian values from what they perceived as disruptive Western influences.
The British wanted to trade opium for China's resources.
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It means that the British were importing more goods from China than they were exporting goods to China.
The British wanted to trade opium for China's resources.
The British were forced to pay for their imports with silver. The British sent increasing quantities of silver to China, especially in exchange for tea, which was in great demand by British. At first, the British tried to negotiate with the Chinese to improve the trade imbalance. When negotiating failed, the British turned to trading opium.
porcelain, exotic tea, and silk.
porcelain, exotic tea, and silk.