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Lin Tse-hsu
VHS
107 minutes
1978
PN1997 .L5781 1983
The film depicts the Chinese people's heroic resistance to British Imperialism in the Opium War of 1840. British Imperialists are shipping huge quantities of opium to China to poison her people. The Ching court sends Lin Tse-hsu as high commissioner to Canton to enforce a decree prohibiting the trade. Lin has the full support of the people of Canton in his struggle against the British imperialists. He orders the burning of 20,000 chests of opium confiscated from British merchants. Seeking revenge, the British Imperialists launch war. Lin and his army in Canton fight back. The British troops withdraw but their gunboats go up north to attack Tientsin and threaten Peking, the capital. The corrupt Ching court panicks and tries to appease the aggressor. It dismisses Lin and banishes him to faraway Sinkiang. But the Chinese people take up resolute resistance to foreign invaders, beginning the century-long struggle against imperialism.
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