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
Guomindong
NAtionalsit Party Won their election 1913
May fourth movement
may 4, 1919, students rebel and beat up pro-Japan people. abolish traditional ways. Li Dazhao and Chen Duxiu= 1st communist, communist party creator.
1920-1930
hard time for China they were very poor, and politically disorganized.
1927
Nianjing became the new capital with Sun Yat-sen in control
3 principals changed and became
national independence, people’s welfare, and democratic liberty.
1937-1945
War against Japan, World War 2, 21 MIllion dead.
