HIST 1007 Study Guide - White Lotus Rebellion, Westernization, Second Opium War
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The white lotus rebellion first broke out in qing china as a tax protest. The result of the 10 year rebellion was a great weakening in the control of the qing empire later contributing to its fall. http://history. cultural-china. com/en/34history5503. html. Qing china was very resistant to westernization and attemtped to isolate themselves instead of opening up. As a resault the british took over customs and there was the opium war and multiple rebellions. During the same time china was isolating itself japan was becoming less resistant and more accepting of westernization and made expansions to both china and korea as well as introducing new government structures, navy, army, railroads, ect. China during the 18th century wanted little to do with the western world and became very isolated. Britian, who was making great profit off of importing opium to china, couldn"t accept when the foreign community was detained and some 20,000 chests of opium destroyed. This sparked the opium war resulting in the.
