Question

For this chat, read the letter written by the Chinese diplomat Lin to Queen Victoria. After you read the letter, summarize the argument it made

Answer 1

anyone read this letter?

Answer 2

@strawberryswing

Answer 3

:For this chat"
chat? O_O

Answer 4

And I don't think I read the letter..

Answer 5

its a chat for my school... we have like required chats and stuff

Answer 6

But I'm pretty sure the argument would be to stop the opium trade...
If it is a letter in 1839

Answer 7

yes

Answer 8

That would be your argument then.

Answer 9

And look through the letter for supporting facts.

Answer 10

For example he says right in the beginning,
"Dear Your Royal Highness Queen Victoria,
…You have traded in China for two hundred years, and as a result, your country has become wealthy. But after this long period of trade, there appear among the crowd of barbarians both good persons and bad. There are those who smuggle opium to seduce the Chinese people and cause the spread of the poison to all provinces. Such persons who only care to profit themselves, and disregard their harm to others, are not tolerated by Chinese law and are hated. His Majesty the Emperor, upon hearing of this, is in a towering rage. He has especially sent me to come to [Guangzhou]…to investigate and settle this matter."

Answer 11

And also,
"The law [in China] calls for the death penalty for people who sell opium or smoke opium. Those barbarians who through the years have been selling opium, then the deep harm they have caused, and the great profit they have made, should justify their execution according to law."

Answer 12

And also this,
"Now we have set up regulations governing the Chinese people. He who sells opium shall receive the death penalty and he who smokes it also the death penalty."

Answer 13

@bebe23

Answer 14

That should help :D

Answer 15

it does thanks

Answer 16

No problem! :P