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Reform and Western Influence. The Self-Strengthening Movement. Aim was military strength Manufacture weapons Officials set up the first modern industrial enterprises. The Treaty Ports. Reasons for their growth Low tariffs Extraterritoriality British commercial law. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Reform and Western Influence
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The Self-Strengthening Movement
• Aim was military strength• Manufacture weapons• Officials set up the first modern industrial
enterprises
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The Treaty Ports
• Reasons for their growth– Low tariffs– Extraterritoriality
• British commercial law
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Refugees in a Shanghai shantytown
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Shanghai British merchants
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Shanghai British family c 1900
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Sassoon family properties
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St John’s University, Shanghai
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Shanghai, Indian army band c. 1900
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A class at French school that took mainly Russian refugee children
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Shanghai Japanese Shinto shrine
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The growth of a social class with an interest in modernisation
• Government employees– Yan Fu
• Overseas Chinese
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• Merchants who work with foreign traders (compradores)– Tang Jingxing– Sir Boshan Wei Yuk
(compradore of forerunner of HSBC Bank)
• Feel excluded from the government
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Rise of oppositional public opinion
• Newspapers
• Writers
• Political parties
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The Qing dynasty’s problems in the 1890s
• Dependence on the treaty system• Decentralisation
– The rise of regional governors• Zeng Guofan• Li Hongzhang
• Foreign imperialism– Vietnam 1884– Korea 1895– Taiwan 1895
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The 100 Days Reforms of 1898
• Kang Youwei petitions the young Guangxu emperor– Abolition of the “eight-legged” essay– Stimulate agriculture, industry and commerce– Western-style drills in the army
• Coup by Dowager Empress Cixi
• Kang creates China’s first political party– The Protect the Emperor Society