Territorial Waters In The Qing Dynasty Awareness Esearch

After1840the first Opium War broke out, the modern Chinese society has undergone ahuge turning point, became a semi-feudal society. Among them, the territorial sea was themost significant, since then, people will be the main attention is focused on marine andseriously re a long-neglected waters.Before the Opium War, the traditional marine thinking, the sea and the land to a minorrole, ocean power is not incorporated into the core powers of the rulers. The ocean is notgiven due attention, just to perform basic management, such as the division of inside andoutside the ocean, respectively, classified in two management systems; cruiser will whistlesystem. These systems is that the "weight control" ban the product of the sea thinking, playeda historical role in the Opium War before, after that, can not adapt to the changed situation.While maintaining their rule, the ruling class on the territorial waters consciousness a newunderstanding, the introduction of the territorial waters of the concept of sovereignty, andupdated the traditional territorial waters thinking.Qianlong period, Guangdong has become the only port of trade in the Western countries,with the characteristics of the territorial waters thinking, thus Guangdong Qing Dynastyterritorial waters awareness situation is conducive to correctly understand and grasp ofChina’s territorial sovereignty of consciousness at that timethe overall situation.