HIST 80b Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Empress Dowager Cixi, South Manchuria Railway, Kang Youwei
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Meiji japan rises, qing and joseon fall (1895 1912) pages 208 to 243. The great game between russia and britain over central asia resulted in an anti- Russian revolution of 1905 resulted in the establishment of a constitutional monarchy. The anglo-japanese alliance of 1902 elevated japan to the great power status. In 1904, the japanese attacked the russian fleet at port arthur on the liaodong. Peninsula, and the russo-japanese war was officially declared soon after. When the treaty of portsmouth acquired four territories, jingoists rioted at hibiya park in tokyo. The treaty had given japan the liaodong peninsula (which have been lost earlier in the triple intervention following the sino-japanese war), the south manchurian. Following parliamentary struggle, ito hirobumi founded the seiyukai party (constitutional party) and resigned as prime minister. Kang youwei pursued reform following the treaty of shimonoseki (1895). A coup was staged by the empress dowager cixi that suppressed the reformers, placed the young.