How did china pick itself back up after the opium wars?

did they just adjust, or did they struggle for many years after that, or did they get a new ruler to help them? etc.How did china pick itself back up after the opium wars?wrong section.How did china pick itself back up after the opium wars?I think that China struggled for many many years after that, Great Britain made big trade surplus by selling opium to the Chinese. China became a semi-colony after the opium wars.



Maybe you can get better answers in history section though.



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http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AuYuvduWyZjS37d0sgqClD6m5HNG;_ylv=3?qid=20100704191203AACOto3How did china pick itself back up after the opium wars?i don't know much about the opium wars outside the basics. but what i do know about post colonial china is that they closed their borders to outsiders -specifically Europeans- and developed a very mistrustful view of the hegemonic European states and america.



once free of their influence they were able to develop their country.

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