Module 6 Test Flashcards
Dream of the Red Chamber
book about the decline of a once great family written during thee Qin dynsty when the economy commerce prospered as well as the written vernacular
White Lotus Appereance
Empire lost the mandate of Heaven, Quasi-Bhuddist
Guangzhou
very important port city
Fists of the Righteous Harmony
the boxers
1858-1860
War between China, France and Britain during the opium rebellion because beijing resisted western terms that were unequal. As a result china lost tiajin and beijing and Cixiś summer palace burned
Opium War
1839-1842
1899-1901
Boxer Uprising,
Taiping Rebellion
14 years, 1850-1864, Hong Xiuquan
1860-1911
Fall of Qing empire
1917
Russias Marxist Leininism inspired China
hundred day reforms
1898 guanxu emperor
cixi retired when she was
63
1908
cixi died
1912
a lot of discontempment the Qing court made the emperor (up yi) renounce and the republic of China was created.
1915-1916-1917
Yuan Shikai declares himself president for life, died suddenly before declaring himself as emerpror.1917 Sun came back, and CHina was in the allied side