Glossary 5

Question 0

Queen Victoria

Answer 0

Reigned 1837-1901

Question 1

Qianlong Emperor

Answer 1

Reigned 1736-1795

Question 2

Tempest in a tea cup?

Answer 2

Tea, porcelain (china), sugar, silk, silver.

Opium.

Question 3

Lin Zexu

Answer 3

Anti opium trade

Question 4

Daoguang Emperor

Answer 4

Lost Opium War

Question 5

Opium Wars

Answer 5

1838-1842

British forced opium because they were losing too much silver

Question 6

Treaty of Nanjing

Answer 6

Unequal treaties
Treaty ports
Extraterritoriality
Indemnities

Question 7

Taiping Rebellion

Answer 7

1850-1864
Hong Xiuquan - a peasant believe he is son of Jesus
Utopian vision of equality.
Total mobilization of war effort, women and children

Question 8

Anglo-French Expeditionary Force

Answer 8

1860

Burning and looting of Yuanmingyuan in retaliation for death of 20 British soldiers

Question 9

Sino-Japanese War

Answer 9

1894-5

Taiwan and Liaodang peninsula ceded to Japan

Question 10

1898 Reform Movement

Answer 10

Liang Qichao
Kang Youwei
Guangxu Emperor
Empress Dowager Cixi

Question 11

Boxer Uprising

Answer 11

1899-1901
Brotherhood of Righteous Harmony: another peasant rebellion upset by West encroachment.
Led to 8 nation Allied occupation of Beijing and Northern China

Question 12

Russo-Japanese War

Answer 12

1904-1905

Port Arthur/da Lian

Question 13

Abolition of Civil Service Exams

Answer 13

1905

Question 14

“Sea of Regret”

Answer 14

Wu Jianren

Question 15

Sun Yat-sen

Answer 15

Republican Revolution 1911