Chapter 12 Section 1 China Resists Outside Influence

Chapter 12 Section 1China Resists Outside Influence

Setting the Stage • Englishman brought gifts of the West • Technology including: • Clocks, globes, musical instruments, and hot air balloons

China and the West, Tea Opium Connection & the Opium War • China • Rejected offers from the West and were self- sufficient- meaning they had an healthy agricultural economy • Received rice from Southeast Asia • Spanish and Portuguese • Traders • Brought maize, sweet potatoes, peanuts from the Americas • Helped increase the productivity in China

Continue…. • China • Mining and manufacturing • Salt, tin, silver, iron, & quantities of ore • Produces silk, cotton, & porcelain • Trade from the West • Spent more on exported goods then the import • Opium • Drug that had the Chinese addicted • Opium War • Britain had steam power gunboats • China was defeated which led to a Peace Treaty • Treaty of Nanjing

Growing Internal Problems & Taiping Rebellion • Food production • Barely increased • Hunger was a widespread • People became discouraged and drug users • Taiping Rebellion • Hong Xiuquan • Had “Heavenly Kingdom of Peace” built • The Chinese could share China’s wealth and no one to live in poverty • Hong soon left everything to his family and trusted lieutenants in charge of the government • Soon attacks were against the Taiping and millions died

Foreign Influence Grows, Change, & Nations Step In • The Taiping Rebellion put pressure on the Chinese government • Despite the Treaty of Nanjing the pressure was increasing • Government leaders called new reform patterns on the West • Some stayed with traditional ways but others went along with the new changes • Resistance to Change • Dowager Empress Cixi-Leader at Qing imperial palace • She was committed to traditional values but supported certain reforms

Continue…. • Dowager Empress: • Backed the self-strengthening movement • Aimed to update China’s educational system • Diplomatic service and military • China was able to set up factories to manufacture • Steam-powered gunboats, rifles, and ammunition • Other Nation Step In • Foreign nations took advantage and attacked China • After conflicts of the Treaty it gave nations control over China • A Open Door Policy was proposed and it protected the U.S. and China • The United States was a trading partner with China • Worried about nations dividing China and shutting out American traders

An Upsurge in Chinese Nationalism, Boxer Rebellion,& Beginnings of Reform • Guangxu • Introduced measures to modernize China • Reorganize the educational system, strengthen the economy, modernize the military, & streamlining the government • Dowager Empress returns • Arrested Guangxu and took over the government • Changed the reforms • Boxer Rebellion • Violence • Boxers or the Society of Righteous and Harmonious Fists surrounded European section • They didn’t back the words of the Empress and were defeated by Beijing

Continue… • Beginnings of Reform • Study of different governments • The group traveled to Japan, U.S., Britain, France, Germany, Russia and Italy • 1906 they recommended reconstructing it’s government • Based it on the constitutional monarchy of Japan • Had internal and external threats, Japan was also faced with this pressure but it responded to the influence differently

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Chapter 12 Section 1 China Resists Outside Influence