HIS 1111 Lecture 5: China- The Wakening Dragon
22 Jan 2018
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China enters the modern era 1839-1911: 1839-41 first opium war, 1850-1864 taiping rebellion, 1894-1895 sino-japanese war, 1900-1901 boxer rebellion, 1911 nationalist revolution. The infamous 1902 boxer rebellion symbolized the degree to which china had fallen under. Western influence and domination despite maintaining a fragile grasp over its independence. Warlord era 1919-1927: 1927 kmt and communist split, japanese encroachment, 1931 annexation of manchuria, 1937-38 rape of nanking, 1935-45 national alliance with communists, 1945 japanese surrender. Chinese civil war (1945-50: 1946 armistice collapses, 1949 mao declares communist state, nationalist flight to formosa, us embargo, 1950 humiliating treaty with russia, war in korea 1950-1953. In the west the fall of china was greeted with great alarm. Suddenly six hundred million people moved from the free world to the communist camp. In truth, the victory of the communist was predicated upon incompetence of nationalists and the unpopularity of chang. Kai-shek, typical of most radical movements in history.
