The Qing Dynasty

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  • China 1900 -
    • The Qing Dynasty
      • Boxer uprising
        • anti-foreigner attack
        • led by society of righteous and harmonious fists
        • november 1899 - September 1901
        • Causes -
          • During attempt to modernise = Guangxu was overthrown by Cixi
          • china hated the 'foreign devils' = they changed usual way of life and attacked traditional religions
          • to avoid criticism cixi encouraged attacks on foreigners
        • Events -
          • attacks on foreigners and christians
          • a german ambassador was killed
          • cixi supported the boxers
          • boxers were defeated by international military defence
          • cixi disguised herself as a Peasant and fled to Xian
        • Impacts -
          • the Qing suffered damage to its reputation
          • china were forced to pay reperations of $330 million over the next 39 years
          • all military fortifications, defences and weapons destroyed
          • international forces were placed around Beijing
          • Cixi's reforms
      • Reforms 1902-11
        • series of reforms that worked on modernising china
        • Causes -
          • she needed to secure the dynasty after the B.U
          • as foreign powers were strong in china, she used their knowledge to help china
          • she needed to improve the Q.D reputation
        • Changes -
          • food binding was banned
          • new modern schools were set up
          • students were sent abroad to study
          • civil service was abolished
      • 1911 revolution -
        • causes -
          • weak leader (puyi - 2)
          • reforms were too little, too late
          • resent over the control of China's railways
        • Impacts -
          • ended 2,200 years of imperial rule
          • Sun Yat-sen stepped down and Yuan shikai was presidant
          • puyi abdicated in 1912
          • established the PRC
          • nationalism and republicanism was brought back into china
        • Events -
          • accidental explosion caused by revolutionaries in Hankou
          • Wuhan soldiers started a mutiny across china
          • sun yat sen returned from exile briefly to become president of the PRC
    • population - 300 million
    • Decline -
      • china defeated in opium wars ---> Britian took resources
      • had been defeated in the 1894 war with japan = lost control of korea
      • france gained territory in south china
    • ruled by imperial system (1 person having control over empire)
    • Mandate of heaven - fate had chosen the emperor

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