POL SCI 141B Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Kodaline, Arms Control, League Of Nations
31 Jan 2017
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Every country wanted a piece of china. Colonies such as burma, siam, laos, etc seen as (cid:712)stepping stones(cid:713) to. Empress dowager cixi and the summer palace. Cixi accused of appropriating funds to rebuild her summer palace. Leaders such as li hongzhang pushed for reform, but were unable to overcome entrenched interests. Li was an advocate of modernization like japan, was an advocate of rebuilding the navy, etc but was opposed. The traditional nobility (landlords) did not want change, but the status quo. Japan was more successful than china because there was very little opposition in japan during the meiji restoration. Most of the samurai class actually benefitted from the changes. As in china, reformers faced opposition from entrenched interests (aristocracy and land holders) Korea had agreements with both china and japan for non-interference. Details of the war aren"t that important, but the treaty is. China cedes taiwan (formosa) and liaodong peninsula to japan.
