CGS SS 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: First Sino-Japanese War, Agricultural Machinery, Xinhai Revolution

• School: Boston University
• Department: Social Sciences
• Course: CGS SS 201
• Professor: June Grasso

Document Summary

Legacy of the opium wars and taiping rebellion. Rift between manchus and han: begin to see serious divide, hans claimed manchus were letting foreigners run. China to preserve land: the dynasty tried to figure out what to do about foreign relations, ulysses s grant over territories given to japan and grant went to china to try to negotiate with qing dynasty. The restoration: an attempt to restore the strength of the chinese empire and an attempt at modernization. It was top-down change (started w the government). Not an attempt to change confucian society (many blame this as weakness), goal was to strength confucian society and strengthen it: ex. Qing dynasty was not convinced of the importance of modernization until the sino- The issue (cid:449)as the status of korea japa(cid:374) a(cid:374)d chi(cid:374)a fought o(cid:374) korea(cid:374) soil (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause. Korea and japan were a tribute state to the vast empire of china.