HIS385H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: New Policies, Kang Youwei, Xinhai Revolution
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Japan: open, more accepted western ideas - then, totally changed. Set up factories / built the weapons, fleet/ modernized structure but not co. After seeing what japanese did to china - westerns started to panic and imi. Hk is an example to show the system set by br is very useful, promte. [some bureaucrats did not want that much of changes, but intelectual class were but not command ic and imitated l, promte western ideas and knowledge class were willing to lead the reform] Later the young emperor was influenced by kang. Early revolutions in hk- idea of revolution conceived. Hk is a birth place of the idea of revolution. Revolutionaries combined, early connections between hk and ch. The interruption with the west, realized the chinese government"s cor. 1900+: journals/news papers readers in hk, overseas southern china. Qing government: hk as base for subversion - revolutionaries as rebels Gradual disappointment with new republic - post revolution disorder.
