POLI 244 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Empress Dowager Cixi, Gunboat Diplomacy, Beijing Legation Quarter
15 Dec 2019
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China borders on countries more than any other in the world by only in asia and pacific. Us-china rivalry-liberalist view: us and chinese economies are interdependent, diplomacy can avert conflict, history of us and chinese cooperation, doesn"t get enough emphasis. China encounters colonizing west: opium wars of 1839-42, 1856-60, europe bought chinese goods but china didn"t buy european goods; (china had porcelain etc. ) Uk wanted to open china as a market for opium produced in india, china refused; Gunboat diplomacy uk forced china under the threat. The use of force or threat for military force to have your way with a weaker country. (gunboat diplomacy: result: china lost, forced to give western powers favorable trade status. Opened china as a market to western powers. Boxer rebellion 1899-1901: chinese rebels ( boxers ) attempted to expel foreigners from beijing, empress dowager cixi supported rebels, declared war in june 1900; 55-day siege of beijing"s.
