Matthew Pinsent Traces His Chinese Family | Who Do You Think You Are
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Olympic rowing champion Matthew Pinsent knows that his parents' families were greatly affected by WWI; two of his grandfather's brothers were killed, as well as his grandmother's only brother. In China, he discovers his maternal great-grandfather's connection with a trading company. Back in the UK, he finds a link to influential aristocrats, and is able to trace his maternal line back to some of the biggest characters in British history.
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They have a past connection in china... It doesn't make her Chinese cos of birth location.
The British didn't build their Empire by playing nice
Make that "family who lived in China..." not Chinese lol
@skeptic781
3 жыл бұрын
Yeah..
@rastra1321
3 жыл бұрын
Exactly...🙄🙄🙄
@rwv3n
3 жыл бұрын
ugh seriously?
@adambaker4310
3 жыл бұрын
@Tigerman writer 100%, was thinking the same.
@flake452
2 жыл бұрын
I apply the same rule with foreigners in Britain.
Some doors better stay unopened....
I just looked this up. William Jardine of a humble family never married. He founded the Jardine Matheson group and incited the Opium Wars against China 1839-42. Those wars gained the UK Hong Kong and access to five major ports including Shanghai. He didn't have descendants but his older brother David did (at least four sons who worked for Jardine Matheson, including Sir Robert Jardine, ancestor of the Buchanan Jardine baronets) and a sister Jean Johnston, ancestress of the Keswick family that now owns Jardine Matheson. David Kandace's mother was a daughter of a Jardine baronet of Applegarth, an unrelated family. I wonder if Jardine Matheson knew that David Landale was apparently no relation. Since he was appointed Taipan (head of the company), I suspect not. But the company historians now do. I don't want to go into details about the opium trade about which I know little. Opium production was legal in British ruled Bengal and Malwa. Its trade was legal in the British empire. But opium trade was illegal in China. Jardine Matheson and its Indian partners smuggled an illegal addictive product into China. They (and other European powers) then used force to make it legal.
@24Wynn
Жыл бұрын
Americans, British, France and India brought opium to get China to open their country for trade. They got Chinese people guarding their ports on opium so they could force themselves into China. The King of China saw this opiate crisis and went to visit Queen Victoria about both countries opioid addiction. The King found out that the British were not addiction to the drug. That's what started the Opium wars. Because Queen Victoria didn't want to discuss why those traders used a highly addictive substance to force China into trading. That was the last of "Kingship" in China. China had all the resources at one point in history, that's why they did not need to trade goods for another. Shameful of how badly the European countries did many dirty things to get what they wanted.
Why would China “granted” a district in Shanghai to the British? I hope it’s been taught in history classes.
@tananario
3 жыл бұрын
It wasn’t “granted.” Google “Opium Wars,” it’s pretty awful.
He's the Descendents of kings going all the way back to Adam and Eve...
Grandfather was a drug dealer😂😂😂😂😂😂
Its not a minefield, opium was popular amongest social Chinese elites and intellectuals from 1810-1950. My Shanghainese grandma said the wealthy family rather let sons take opium, than to gamble the family fortunes away. Because the cost of smoking opium a month was around the price of 50-70kg rice. I gather that opium house costed more, but still relatively affordable by middle class.
And to think that I only have tracked until 7th generation behind me :/ He have arrived beyond !
So… the big family estate in Scotland was bought with illegal ( there was a ban in China and they smuggled it in) drug money?!! I like how he quickly tried to justify that by saying “it wasn’t illegal then“… as if the addictive qualities were lessened because it wasn’t deemed illegal yet around the world it was however banned in China and his ancestral family member… in essence smuggled it in to make money. 🤷♀️🤦♀️
@edgar-valentine
Жыл бұрын
they didn't need to justify, we have all benefitted, we drink tea and coffee (with sugar) despite it being built on the back of many millennia of slavery
@katarzynamuszynska5426
Жыл бұрын
Why he needs to be ashamed? Its his family but 3 generation ,why he needs to excuse his great grandfather wrong doing ?
Trading in opium////
So after they fight a war to control opium shipping he actually asks if the company stayed in opium. Uh... yeah... that's why the guy Britain to go to war with China. It's not like, "Well we won. Cost lives and ships, but we were just kidding. China, you can have all the opium trade now." 🙄
From what I remember, Matthew has a gateway ancestor (member if aristocracy whose pedigree is documented), which led back to royalty, and God. ALL medieval kings were directly descended from God.
@Marcel_Audubon
Жыл бұрын
don't be intentionally stooopid
The British were right #!&*.
So Opium fulled the gold medals?
yees