EAST 211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Boxer Rebellion, May Fourth Movement, Boxer Protocol

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Na*on building and culture building: the 1911 revolu*on and may 4th. Terms: boxer rebellion, three principles of the people, lu xun. Revolution: movements towards end of the qing, sino-japanese war 1894-95. China and japan sent troops to protect korean royal. Japan got there faster: treaty of shimonoseki 1895. Taiwan pescadores (penghu) ceded to japan and perpetuity. Bad treaty for the chinese: china has always saw japanese to be inferior, and this was humiliation - more need to modernize, ti yong. Chinese learning should remain the essence, but western learning should be use for practice development . Railway, build chinese industry of mining and steel. Requested economic, industrial reforms proposal for the royal: modern army, needed industrial base, raise taxes, install postal system, empress ignores this. Medical school - peking college (the only reform that lasted) Ordered officials throughout the country to coordinate reforms. Production of tea and skip: military reform. Sponsored fleet 34 modern warships: bureaucratic reform.

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