HIS280Y1 Lecture : The Collapse of the Qing Dynasty.docx
Document Summary
The sino-japanese war (1894-95) and the hundred-days reform (1898) The background, development, and consequences of the boxer uprising (1900) The new politics of 1902 and their momentous importance. The emergence of a revolutionary alternative: sun yat-sen and the revolutionary alliance. Zeng guofan (1811-1972) senior qing official in charge of the suppression of the taiping. In prosecuting the war, he created around himself a far-reaching network of supporters. He uses his position to place his supporters in provincial governorships. Fiscal decentralization as a result of the taiping rebellion. One of the things that happened during the rebellion was that the provincial level of government took control of tax collection. Now, instead of taxes going from the locality to the centre back down to the provinces, the taxes go from the localities right to the provinces. The provinces would use the taxes for their own projects. This was originally justified for the suppression of the rebellion, but after the rebellion it continued.
