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What was the Boxer Rebellion a result of?

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continued failures of the self-strengthening movement, The defeat in the sino-japanese war, corruption and impotence in opposing territorial demands, scramble for concessions – GROWTH IN NATIONALISM

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Who did the progressives find a patron in (Qing)

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Emperor Guanxu

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Who was Cixi

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irrepresible ex-regent, ultra conservative who opposed any reform to the political system.

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When was Cixi a regent?

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from 1861-1889 after Emperor Xianfeng’s death

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when did Cixi reassume regency?

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in 1898 after she plotted for Guanxu’s removal and he was placed under house arrest until he died in 1908

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what shows Cixi’s ignorance (to do with money)

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she had a marble boat carved with money that was intended for modernising China’s navy.

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when was the Hundred Days Reform

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1898

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what were some things that the Hundred Days reform included

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reorganising the education system, western style university in Beijing, freedom of publication, government departments for mining, agriculture and trade

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what happened to reformers when Cixi took the regency again

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some fled (Kang and Liang) others were not lucky and they were killed

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where did the Boxer rebellion begin

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Shangdong- province that had been humiliated (weihaiwei, german military presence)

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what was the name of the Boxers

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Fists of United Righteousness

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who did Boxers target

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Christianity and chinese converts

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what did the boxers do?

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attacked anything with western origin, they claimed to have supernatural powers (impenetrable by bullets)

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how many chinese christians were killed in the 1890s?

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approx 30,000

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what happened in Taiyuan

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a governor promised missionaries and their families saftey not true and they were all killed by boxers

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what did Boxers do when they entered the foreign legations in Beijing

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put them under siege, assassinated a German minister and Japanese diplomat

17
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why did Cixi grant support to the Boxers?

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she thought they might be able to rid china of foreigners, she orders Qing troops to help the uprising (order ignored by most regional bosses)

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What was the Eight Nation Army, how many troops

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western nations sent a joint army of 20,000 to relieve the besieged legations

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What was the boxer protocol (1901)

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treaty that demanded the apologies for the murder of the chinese diplomat and a memorial for the Murdered German ambassador, legation quarter was now just for foreigners, allowed to station troops in beijing, indemnity of 450 million taels

20
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what did the boxer rebellion signify

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the last stand of conservative china– now had to accept foreigners were permanent in china

21
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why was the Qing upheld by the foreign powers?

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maintain a semblance of national unity

22
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how much of the population were addicted to opium (foreign presence bringing it in)

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40%

23
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when did the Qing collapse

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1911

24
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why was the boxer rebellion significant in terms of the fall of the Qing

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turned it from an If to a When (embarrassment etc)

25
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what was important about the boxer rebellion for Japan

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a lot of the 20,000 troops sent in were Japanese– world importance

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What are three causes of the boxer rebellion

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Instability of the Qing , westerners, Christian missionaries (propaganda bit o a stretch)

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What propaganda did the boxers use

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Thought they were invincible/ bullet proof, red lanterns could fly, used demonstrations.

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Why was the instability of the Qing a cause

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Emperor was under house arrest so Cixi ruled, failure of 100 days reform 1998 and self strengthening movement 1861-1895, Qing was seen as a puppet for westerners , weakness of the Qing meant results of sino Japanese war were not good

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Why were the westerners a cause

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Foreigners were in China, Scramble for concessions 1895-1901, they wanted to kick out foreigners. Germans sieved ShangDong
Germans treated Chinese badly

30
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Why were Christian missionaries a cause

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Church disrupts feng shui. Chinese converts had extraterritoriality ( had extra treatment ) people wanted to kick out missionaries and kill converts (30,000 Chinese Christians killed ) failed harvests blamed on missionaries

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what where the results of the boxer rebellion

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boxer protocol was signed , 450 million taels and reparations ( by 1940 had to pay close to a billion taels bcs of interest )

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