Are you independent? Do you like being by yourself and not with the rest of the world? China is the place for you! In the Manchu Dynasty, where you would be living, no one has any interest in trading with the western nations, the Chinese people you will with won't need trade. Find something the Chinese need! Come over with the English with Opium and trade it for silk, porcelain, tea, and spices. Receive Chinese silver and fight trade imbalance with China. Smuggle Opium, a narcotic, used as a pain killer, into china for non-medical use, when the government asks you to stop. Fight in the Opium War, Help 12 million Chinese people get addicted to this drug, the lose millions of dollars worth of opium when the people destroy it. Watch as the Chinese struggle with modern weaponry and equipment, introduce far-reaching social, economical, and culture ideas to the Chinese people. Sign the Treaty of Nanjing in 1842 and bring an end to the isolation of the ancient Chinese civilization. Make the Chinese pay for your war costs, open five trading ports.
Take part in the Taiping Rebellion and fight with the angry peasants, for property, to fix corruption, and the loss of mandate of heaven, all while destroying the Chinese economy, killing millions of people (20 million), and being put down with the help of the westerners. Begin your 100 day reform, resist modernization, take place in a self strengthening movement, learn how to use weapons, and steam driven ships, allow an open door policy to be put into place so no one can rule you just trade with you or be apart of the Sun Yixian, or the Rebellion of 1911. witness and choose the first president of the Chinese republic, and follow the 3 principles of the Sun Yixian, to end foreign dominance, form a representative government(democracy), and create an economic security for all Chinese people.
The Boxer Rebellion: If you feel mistreated, by the Europeans and ChineseChristians, who were protected by Missionaries, you can join the Society of Harmonious fists or the Boxers and march with the other peasants to Beijing to throw out foreigners, surrounding the parts of the city that are foreign controlled, grow as a nation, contribute to the new sense of Nationalism, fight to the death against 20,000 men, bring death upon the "foreign devils", Challenge the western commercial and political influence in China, and stop the imperial forces with the other millions of people that are on your side.
When your ports open and the treaty is set into motion you along with the British will annex Hong Kong and Kowloon, and set up trade there while setting a heavy influence on those people, then you could help France will take IndoChina: Vietnam, Cambodia, and Loas, and add to the already established diversity of those countries, then help Russia take Chinese Turkistan, and Manchuria, and Japan take Taiwan and win dominance over Korea and take exclusive trading privileges over all of the countries changing Chinese culture for the better and benefiting our country by doing so. The ancient Chinese civilization will never be the same again.