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Chapter 12 Transformations Around the Globe

Chapter 12 Transformations Around the Globe. 1800-1914. Section 1 Assesment. The Chinese were economically self-sufficient. Growing population, poor harvests, corruption, growing opium addiction Qing officials felt threatened; Dowager Empress committed to tradition

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Chapter 12 Transformations Around the Globe

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  1. Chapter 12 Transformations Around the Globe 1800-1914

  2. Section 1 Assesment • The Chinese were economically self-sufficient. • Growing population, poor harvests, corruption, growing opium addiction • Qing officials felt threatened; Dowager Empress committed to tradition • China’s size and its centralized gov’t made conquest difficult

  3. Discuss w/ your partner: • Who are the two groups of people? • What do the Europeans want? • What are their attitudes? • What type of things are they offering? • What is the reaction of the Chinese? • What else do you notice?

  4. Section 1China Resists Outside Influence • China and the West • China had no need to trade w/ West • Self-sufficient: agricultural, mining, manufacturing (not industrialized) • Opium War • Brit sold opium to improve balance of trade between Brit & CH • CH did not want the drug; led to fighting • Brit use superior navy to win • Results: • CH suffered humiliating defeat • Sign Treaty of Nanking • CH gives up island of Hong Kong • Brit does not stop selling opium • Foreigners in CH benefit from extraterritorial rights • Did not have to follow CH law Balance of trade: relationship between exports and imports Opium: addictive drug made from poppy plant, CH doctors used it to relieve pain

  5. Sphere of Influence: a region in which a foreign nation controls trade and investment Open Door Policy: proposed that all nations have equal opportunities to trade in China • Taiping Rebellion • Rebel government in southeastern China that lasted about 10 years • Imperial, Brit, & FR troops brought down Taiping gov’t • Foreign Influence Grows • Empress Cixi supported self-strengthening movement but foreign interference created problems • Many Euro powers and Japan gained a sphere of influence in CH • US declared the Open Door Policy so they would not be left out of trading w/ CH

  6. Resentment: being unhappy about something • Boxer Rebellion • Poor peasants were bitter b/c: • foreigners had special privileges • Did not like CH who became Christians • Did not like Cixi’s rule • She stopped Guangxu’s attempt to modernize CH • European troops squashed the Rebellion • Resentment of foreigners contributed to both the Opium War & Boxer Rebellion

  7. China Resists Outside Influence

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