POL101Y1 Lecture Notes - Hundred Flowers Campaign, Communist Party Of China, Qing Dynasty
Document Summary
Allure of fukuyama is compelling, however; the example of china goes against his idea that history has ended along with the fall of communism. China in the modern era: end of the qing dynasty, republican revolution, sun yat-sen: three principles of people , nation, democracy, welfare. opium wars with the british; go to war with the japanese (end up losing the war) ok to lose war to british, but not the japanese. these lost wars set the stage for the end of the dynastic regime. after the ming dynasty more people living on less, china closed off from the rest of the world becoming essentially economically backwards, disengaged from the world economy. brilliant at inventing things, however; were unable to sell on the international market. was a manchurian dynasty (not han); manchurians viewed as barbarians that ruled china for over 2 centuries.
