HTST 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Communist Party Of China, Sun Yat-Sen, Warlord Era
5 Nov 2018
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Identify why china enters cycle of reform, reaction, & revolution starting in 1890s: culminating w/ victory of chinese communist party in 1949. China under the late qing dynasty: china sits @ center of major trading network (reaches as far as vietnam & into pacific w/ Japan: history of modern china begins w/ establishment of qing dynasty (aka manchu dynasty), 1644-1912: powerful enough they can effectively regulate things themselves. Self-confident, self-assured: expansive empire, able to crush political/military independence of smaller nations on its frontiers & expanding regionally. Implement confucian social structure: scholars/gentry (can staff royal bureaucracy, farmers (produce crops, pay taxes, artisans (make products) Inability to move to higher ranks most important to revolutionary change: merchants (sell objects created by peasants/artisans, paul kennedy, "the rise and fall of the great powers" ); creates more conflict; frontiers replete w/ security hazards. Infrastructure don"t always facilitate transportation of armies fast enough to deal w/ these threats.
