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[[Opium]] - in 1870, opium still constituted 43% of China's imports, and until 1890, it remained the largest single import product in China. - Joseph Esherick, "Harvard on China: The Apologetics of Imperialism." Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars 4:4 (1972), 10.
[[Opium]] - in 1870, opium still constituted 43% of China's imports, and until 1890, it remained the largest single import product in China.
Exports: 1842, 92% of exports were tea and silk. 1868, 93.5%, 1890, 64.5%. Throughout 19th century, tea + silk constituted at least 50% of Chinese exports. At least 40% of tea production in China was for export, and 50-70% of silk production, all the way to the 1920s. The loss of foreign markets in the 1930s through 1940s (and into the PRC era) thus deprived "countless thousands of Chinese peasants" of their livelihoods.
- Joseph Esherick, "Harvard on China: The Apologetics of Imperialism." Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars 4:4 (1972), 10.
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