Second Opium War The Second Opium War (Chinese: 第二次鴉片戰爭; pinyin: Dì'èrcì Yāpiàn Zhànzhēng), also known as the Second Anglo-Chinese War, the Second China War, the Arrow War, or the Anglo-French expedition to China,[full citation needed] was a war, lasting from 1856 to 1860, which pitted the British Empire and the French Empire against the Qing dynasty of China.
