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China’s Drive for Modernization - Chapter 29:iii -. At the end of the nineteenth-century, European nations were in conflict over who should have influence over parts of China. [Image source: http://collect.at/wordpress/?tag=boxer-rebellion].
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At the end of the nineteenth-century, European nations were in conflict over who should have influence over parts of China. [Image source: http://collect.at/wordpress/?tag=boxer-rebellion]
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Overseas Chinese formed the Tongmenghui, aka Chinese Revolutionary Alliance, to foment rebellion at home. [Image source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sun_Yat_Sen_together_with_the_members_of_the_Singapore_Branch_of_Tongmen_Hui.png]
In 1911, China had a brief revolution that toppled the Manchu (Qing) Dynasty. [Image source: http://www.jamiiforums.com/jamii-photos/273883-death-faces-execution-2.html]
Before there was colour films, hand-tinted postcards of exotic locales were a popular form of communication. [Image source: http://image0-rubylane.s3.amazonaws.com/shops/curioshop/col-7756.1L.jpg?15]
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China established a republic in January 1912. [Image source: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Chinese_republic_forever.jpg]
Dr. Sun Yat-sen emerged as the leader of the nascent Republic of China. [Image source: http://freemasonry.bcy.ca/biography/images/sun_y.jpg]
What is the message of this political cartoon? [Image source: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e6/Republic_of_China_Flags.jpg]
The Kuomintang (Chinese National Peoples’ Party, or KMT) emerged asthe dominant party in the new republic.
Shortly before he died, former Manchu (Qing) General Yuan Shikai (Shigai) attempted to establish a new dynasty to rule China.
With a weakened central authority, regional warlords ruled small, semi-independent countries. [Image source: http://m3.i.pbase.com/o3/28/540728/1/89933333.Wx1HAlma.PH014_4042.jpg]
Feng Yu-xiangwas known as the Christian General, for his zeal to convert his troops, and as the Betrayal General, for his penchant for switching sides. [Image source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Feng_Yuxiang2.jpg]
In 1919, the victorious allies gave Shandong Province to Japan.
What are the strategic advantages to Japan for controlling Shandong Province? [Image source: http://making-history.com/asset/384091]
May 4th Movement [Image source: http://history.cultural-china.com/en/34History7223.html]
May 4th Resolutions • To oppose the granting of Shandong to the Japanese under former German concessions. • To draw awareness of China's precarious position to the masses in China. • To recommend a large-scale gathering in Beijing. • To promote the creation of a Beijing student union. • To hold a demonstration that afternoon in protest to the terms of the Treaty of Versailles.
By the 1920s, China was a patchwork-quilt of semi-autonomous territories. [Image source: http://althistory.wikia.com/wiki/File:Warlord_Era_1905_Map.png]
Chinese warlords ruled-over their fiefdoms with private armies equipped with Western weapons. [Image source: http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/6209/wupeifusoldierstrainingpy7.jpg]
What do you notice about this unit? [Image source: http://www.informationwar.org/warsxgallery/china-civilwar20sand30s01.jpg]
Chiang Kai-shek (Jiang Gaishek), a protégé of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, became the dominant personality within the KMT.
Under Jiang, the KMT and Communist parties launched the Northern Expedition in 1926 to re-unify China. [Image source: http://www.tecumseh.150m.com/Warlords/NorthernExpedition.jpg]
The allied forces co-operated until they reached the city of Shanghai. [Image source: http://www.cityofart.net/bship/central_troops_1927.jpg]
In April 1927, Chiang Kai-shek attempted topurge the Northern Expedition of Communists. [Image source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Communist_purge.jpg]
Nanjing became the capital of China. This is actually a postcard of Shanghai. [Image source: http://blog.asianart.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/EX037A.jpg]
The Bund along the Shanghai riverfront. [Image source: http://wallpaperswide.com/shanghai_1930-wallpapers.html]
Living conditions for most Chinese peasants were little-changed over centuries. [Image source: http://chinadigitaltimes.net/wp-content/uploads/mt-old/_002plough.jpg]
A young Mao Zedong encouraged fellow communists to organize soviets among the peasants in rural areas. [Image source: http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01492/mao1937_1492414i.jpg]
Mao successfully organized the peasants in Jiangsu Province.
The Communists gained popular support from rural peasants through a program of land redistribution. [Image source: http://www.indiana.edu/~e232/LandReform.jpg]
Before long, the Red Armyhad 30,000 peasant troops. [Image source: http://images.china.cn/attachement/jpg/site1007/20121106/00016c8b5de01203250d10.jpg]
“The enemy advances, we retreat; the enemy camps, we harass; the enemy tires, we attack; the enemy retreats,we pursue.” • [Image source: http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110215023309/deadliestfiction/images/8/80/Chinese_communist_forces.jpg]
General Jiang Kai-shek launched a number of “extermination campaigns” to destroy the Communists. [Image source: http://www.thewartourist.com/files/asia/eastasia/china/Kuomintang_in_German_uniforms.jpg]
The Long March [Image source: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b0/Chinese_civil_war_map_03.jpg]
Battles were fought almost every day, as the Chinese Communists attempted to flee from Nationalist forces. [Image source: http://history.cultural-china.com/chinaWH/upload/upfiles/2010-01/20/long_march__a_significant_episode_in_the_history_of_the_cpc70b9c6e1e565c098fa55.jpg]
A myth developed that presented Mao Zedong as a great military leader, following the trek to Yan’an. [Image source: http://ocw.nd.edu/political-science/the-rise-and-fall-of-world-communism/images-1/maolongmarch.jpg]
Heroic feats of valour were immortalized in art and music. [Image source: http://bhoffert.faculty.noctrl.edu/HST265/LongMarch.LudingBridge.jpg]
What thoughts or emotions does this image evoke? [Image source: http://www.metroretrofurniture.com/images/art/ae05framedart08.jpg]
Mao left Jiangsu with 100,000 men, and arrived at Xian with 8,000. [Image source: http://www.kingsacademy.com/mhodges/03_The-World-since-1900/06_Dictatorship/pictures/ELS-132_map_China-dismembered_1930s.jpg]
Mao Zedong emerged from the Long March as leader of the Chinese Communists. [Image source: http://history.cultural-china.com/chinaWH/upload/upfiles/2010-09/02/more_info9c86e7c129bf608c883d.jpg]
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What is the message of this poster, published during World War II? [Image source: http://images.fineartamerica.com/images-medium-large/we-salute-the-chinese-republic-war-is-hell-store.jpg]
Campaign to Suppress Counter-revolutionariespropaganda poster (1951). [Image source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Suppress_counterrevolutionaries(1951).jpg]
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