POLI 244 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Empress Dowager Cixi, Power Transition Theory, Boxer Rebellion
4 Dec 2015
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Holds that global powers rise and fall over the course of history. Europe brought chinese goods but china didn"t buy european goods; uk wanted to open china as a market for opium produced in india; china refused; gunboat diplomacy. Result: china lost, forced to give western powers favourable trade status. Chinese rebels ( boxers ) attempted to expel foreigners from beijing. Empress dowager cixi supported rebels, declared war in june 1900; 55-day siege of. Combined british, french, german, japanese, us, russian, italian, austro-hungarian armies defeated rebels, plundered beijing, executed boxers, and imposed indemnity payments. Us soldiers participated in occupation of international area after boxer rebellion. Us aided mao"s chinese communists vs. japanese in wwii. When wwii ended, chinese civil war began between the communists and chiang kai. Us backed nationalists, who lost and fled to taiwan. Skirmished and threat of war between china and taiwan ever since. Us has armed, trained and backed taiwan.
