HIS280Y1- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 112 pages long!)
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Review: restoration under the reigme of emperor tongzhi lasted till mid 1870s attempt to bring industrial complex bring in ships, warfare, made clear to british that qing is powerful too. Military restoration translator school, sending children to europe for school. The great man history -> marked the end of imperial china. Dowager empress cixi prince gong, and her as the council that was really in charge of the tongzhi restoration. Cixi -> 1835-1908 she is the vision of the dragon lady power hungry. Cixi happened to be another illteration of women coming to power. From a major manchu lineager and chosen as concur as mid teen she gave birth to tongzhi emperor. Guangxi emperor -> very young as well by 1881-> she was the only dowager left, by 1889-> she arranged emperess for her newphew of guangxu and retire from the system [ but not really ] Kang youwei was trained as a confucians scholar.
