China Flashcards
Manchu took over Qing
Food shortages
Bandits
Corruption in gov exams
Flooding- agricultural hardships
British took over instead of another
Dynastic cycle
UNEQUAL TREATIES
Treaty of Nanking makes 5 Ports open
Island of Hong Kong now British colony
Brit residents can listen to Brit rules in china
Tapping rebellion led by who
Hong xiuquan led religious movement gathered many groups that didn like status quo
WANTED DRIVE MANCHU OUT OF CHINA
Wanted radical reforms
No foot binding
Free public education
No private property
Democratic institutions
What did taiping rebellion cause
Decline in agricultural production ppl in war starved areas and epidemic disease ppl not buried right
Goal of self strengthening movement
Modernize china from within to counter challenge from west
Didn’t work scholar gentry had control gov felt threatened
Cixi
Rejected self strengthening movement acted like nothing happened thinks china is still best spends lots of money
Boxer rebellion
Uprising against all western influence secretly supported by Qing emperors
Outcome of boxer rebellion
Killed lots of Europeans so British got involved china was overthrown and china disagree what kind gov to have