HIST 11B Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Zeng Guofan, Wei Yuan, Qing Dynasty
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How men of learning tried to salvage china. Self strenghtening movement finance problems with coordination failure. Multiple foreign powers carbe out spheres of influence in china interest in evidential learning and precise philological definitions more secular form of learning not about moral worth (focus of neoconfucianism in song) statecraft learning. Han learning - interests in texts closest to classics. Zeng guofan - combined han learnig and neoconfucian moral learning studied with wei yuan. 5% tarriff, british take some but the rest goes to chinese state. Chinese ships were huge, much larger, bigger guns. Japanese ships were smaller, came from the side instead of attacking head one, much more effective other factos contribute to qing losing miserably. Ch fleet isn"t trained properly, not aware of accurate range of guns corruption some of the shells ch use are full of scrap iron, not dynamite some bags of gunpowder are full fo sand.
