HIST1601 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Canton System, Build Automation, Practical Education
The Taiping Rebellion and Meiji Restoration – Dr Mei-Fen Kuo
Part 1
Week 12 Lecture:
• Western impact 19th century
• Compare Japan and China
• Modern nation-state and fail to defend
Outline:
• China: Opium wars, rebellion, movement and wat
• Japan: commodore, restoration
• Conclusion
China and Japan – efoe 84s
• Qing dynasty established
• Reached peak
Canton System:
• Form China to control trade with the west
• All trade on the southern port of Canton
• Change in mid-19th century
Japan:
• Tokugawa period
• Political power to build system
• Bans all foreigners
• Dejima – only single place foreign traders can come
China and Japan:
• Both combined major European influence
• Open to the world
• Rise of Qing and Japanese
• Increasing wars
China:
• Still want to dominate political power
• Qing empire
• Manchu minority system
• Imperial problems
• Only trust relations for political decisions
• Trouble in political systems
• Uneven growth
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China:
• First Opium War
• Treaty of Nanjing ended war with Britain
• First of u-eual teaties
China:
• Freedom and right of British to stay in China
• Treaty sign of weakening
• Increasing pressure for west to open ports and trade
• Give more power to outside influences – British, French, Dutch
• Must not sign treaty
Rebellions:
• Corruption, taxation, uneven growth
• Open trading posts – killing jobs and the role of certain jobs
• Rebellions led to secret societies
Taiping rebellion:
• Bloodiest cive war in history
• 20 million people killed (the current Aus pop in 15 years)
• Qing almost collapse
• South China
• Hong Xiuchuan
• Failed civil service exams – could not become official
• Not like Japan of social stations
• Saw God – laied to e Jesus Chists youge othe
• Maybe true – going to build own kingdom
Rebellion:
• Organized God Woshippes Soiety
• Attracted members of poor secret society
• Loose jobs and hope – follow and see what they can get
• Challenged imperial power
• Captured capital of Nanjing
• Not really peace – offered communal ownership and equality
• Worship of God, Jesus and Hong
• Socially complex
• Influence of Karl Marx and Chinese communists
Response:
• Traditional scholar-officials to reform
• Encouraged officials to build local armies
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Document Summary
The taiping rebellion and meiji restoration dr mei-fen kuo. Week 12 lecture: western impact 19th century, compare japan and china, modern nation-state and fail to defend. Outline: china: opium wars, rebellion, movement and wat, conclusion. China and japan (cid:271)efo(cid:396)e (cid:1005)84(cid:1004)(cid:859)s: qing dynasty established, reached peak. Canton system: form china to control trade with the west, all trade on the southern port of canton, change in mid-19th century. Japan: tokugawa period, political power to build system, bans all foreigners, dejima only single place foreign traders can come. China and japan: both combined major european influence, open to the world, rise of qing and japanese. China: still want to dominate political power, qing empire, manchu minority system, only trust relations for political decisions, trouble in political systems, uneven growth. China: first opium war, treaty of nanjing ended war with britain, first of (cid:858)u(cid:374)-e(cid:395)ual(cid:859) t(cid:396)eaties.
