1. Trade imbalance with Great Britain, which led to Opium imports into China, which the Chinese tried to ban but failed. This led to the Opium Wars.
2. An outcome of the Opium wars was British victory leading to the Chinese signing unequal treaties, opening trade, giving land to the British and forcing the Chinese to pay for the war.
3. The Europeans established 'spheres of influence' in certain territories of China, leading to the Chinese fighting back, to gain independence.
Mr. Jabez-Wilson writes so much in "The Red-Headed League" because he takes up a useless job for The Red-Headed League, which is an office for males with ginger hair. He is told to copy the Encyclopedia Britannica, which has loads of pages and is one of the biggest books in history. When he goes up to Sherlock Holmes to let him know of this weird sort of engagement, he has not even finished copying all of the information under the letter "A".
<span>through honest confessions and repentance</span>
