Why did the british began importing large amounts of opium to china? what impact did this importation of opium have on chinese society?

Britain decided to move opium from the hidden routes created in India to China. Opium was used in Chinese traditional medicine as a remedy.

Explanation:

The Opium Wars' effects extended from east to west across a wide geographic region and alerted many more countries. Other nations have also been impacted and are closely involved in the occurrences throughout all these financial and military.

The Ottoman Empire wasn't very significant as one of these countries, but at times showed an interest in the situation, as the data in the documents reflected understand. China's failure in the Opium War brought a series of changes on its own closed economy to Japan in its region, similar to China.

explanation: we can only guess at how our actions may be perceived in the future. doing something really big like killing lots of people, saving lots of people, affecting the lives of lots of people is a sure fire way of being remembered in historical records. we can also make a difference in the history records by being a small influence on something bigger, whether that is as a civil servant, scientist or artist.

of course you could argue that we all affect history just as tiny cogs in a   bigger machine.

if you mean how do people influence our opinions of things which have already happened, then simply by writing a book which looks at things form a different perspective and trying to convince people that this perspective is more accurate or truthful. people do it all the time i.e. richard the third was a terrible or was he? plenty would disagree, it's just that their views aren't the most widely known.n: