MMW 14 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Hong Xiuquan, Kang Youwei, Agricultural Science

• School: UCSD
• Department: Making of the Modern World
• Course: MMW 14
• Professor: Edmond Chang

Document Summary

China"s attempt to modernize: foreign threat and internal reform. Treaty of wanghia in 1844 with the us. Undermined china"s territorial sovereignty and legal prerogatives. American citizens in china were subject to chinese law. The us agreed to make opium illegal. China was made to fix the tariff rate on american imports. Lifting the ban on americans learning mandarin and other chinese dialects. Freedom for catholic missionaries to proselytize anywhere in china. The other provisions of the treaty were basically the same as the. Gave trade concessions to basically every european power. Every european power was granted most favored nation status. From this point on, foreign powers in china no longer had to compete for privileges. They were now focused on getting as much as they could from the. Coup de grace: outcome of the sino-japanese war 1894-95. Started in korea where the japanese were trying to overrun the peninsula. China stepped in to try to save korea, but they lost.