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Modern China: A Capsule History. The Impact of the West on 19 th and 20 th Century China. The Manchu Conquest of China: 1644. Imposition of the Queue. Manchu conquest of Taiwan: Koxinga and the anti-Qing rebellion 1661-1683. The Kangxi Emperor: Longest Reigning Chinese Emperor: 1661-1722.
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Modern China: A Capsule History The Impact of the West on 19th and 20th Century China
Manchu conquest of Taiwan: Koxinga and the anti-Qing rebellion 1661-1683
The Kangxi Emperor: Longest Reigning Chinese Emperor: 1661-1722
The Manchus become Confucian: Heirs to the Mandate of Heaven
Astronomers Translators Missionaries Weapons manufacturers Cartographers Advisors Matteo Ricci The Jesuits and their role
The Opium War: “The most disreputable War Britain eve fought” Gladstone • Motivation: the British thirst for tea and trade • Destabilization: Payment in silver as China wanted nothing the British produced • Problem: Imbalance in trade • Solution: Illegal importation of Opium into China
The Treaty of Nanjing: 1842: First Unequal Treaty • Cede Island of Hong Kong in perpetuity • Open 5 pots to trade: Guangzhou (Canton), Xiamen (Amoy), Foochow (Fuzhou), Ningpo (Ningbo), Shanghai. • Pay 21 Million dollars reparations • Extraterritoriality • Most Favored Nation Clause
Second Opium War: Causes • Desire for free trade • Desire to travel in interior • Desire for missionary activity • Desire for legalization of opium • Desire for diplomatic relations
Treaties of Tianjin and Aigun • Europeans right to have legations in Beijing • 10 cities opened for trade and residence • Foreign ships navigate freely on Yangtse river • Foreigners right to travel, trade, and proselytize in China • 6 million dollar indemnity • Russia got the maritime Province
Convention of Beijing: second unequal treaty 1860 • Confirm Tianjin Treaty • Cede Kowloon to Britain • Open Tianjin as treaty port • Chinese laborers allowed to emigrate overseas
Rebellions: Taiping, Nian, Muslim: 1850-1878 • Transfer of power from Manchus to Chinese • Transfer of power from Center to provinces • Weakening of Central government • Allowing further Western Imperialism • Awakening desire for change among Chinese youth • Sense of doom among youth
Rebels and Mandarins • Zeng Guofan
Balancing act Position as regent Raising fear of foreigners and Chinese Personal friendship Bestowal of favors Cixi and the maintenance of power
The Sino-Japanese War: 1895 • Li Hong Zhang Shimonoseki
Treaty of Shimonoseki • Cession of Taiwan to Japan • 200 million dollar indemnity • China recognize independence of Korea • Cede Liaodong Peninsula to Japan (reversed by Triple Intervention by Russia, France and Germany) • Open more ports and rivers to trade
The Boxer Rebellion • A Boxer and the International Relief force
Sun’s Three Principles of the People: San Min Zhu Yi • Nationalism: Min Zu • Democracy: Min Quan • Socialism (people’s welfare): Min Sheng
The Accidental Revolution: 1912: The end of the imperial system and the establishment of a Republic • Yuan Shi Kai becomes President
Chen Duxiu Li Dazhao Founding of the Chinese Communist Party
Founding member of CCP Reinterpreter of Leninism for Chinese conditions Interested in the peasants Mao Zedong as a Young Man
End of the first United Front in Shanghai • Nationalists turned on the Communists and massacred them in Shanghai • Resulted in split of the Nationalist party • Renewed civil war against the Communists • Communists in city virtually destroyed • Mao flees to countryside in Jinggangshan
Japanese invasion and creation of the state of Manchukuo: Puyi crowned as emperor in 1932
Start of the Sino Japanese War: 1937: Lugoujiao (Marco Polo Bridge)