China in World History

I t was a cruel coincidence of history that Qing dynastic decline coin- cided precisely with the early Industrial Revolution and ...

Decline, Fall, and Aftermath of the Qing Empire 103 than Guangzhou and concluding with a standard emperor’s command to his lowly ...

104 China in World History 1807, when a government offi cial complained that China’s laws against opium smoking were too lax. Oc ...

Decline, Fall, and Aftermath of the Qing Empire 105 their “factories” (warehouses). They would be released, he declared, only wh ...

106 China in World History regulated or taxed. By 1880, China imported about 80,000 chests of opium per year, twice the amount i ...

Decline, Fall, and Aftermath of the Qing Empire 107 Hong Xiuquan’s power was based heavily on his direct access to divine revela ...

108 China in World History leaving no one with time or energy to assess the dynasty’s need for long- term political and economic ...

Decline, Fall, and Aftermath of the Qing Empire 109 to grant it special trading and taxation privileges in its own “sphere of in ...

110 China in World History the Philippines in 1899, the U.S. government became worried that the European powers and Japan might ...

Decline, Fall, and Aftermath of the Qing Empire 111 Christian missionaries who moved into many parts of the Chinese coun- trysid ...

112 China in World History of the Boxer uprising, Hart predicted with uncanny accuracy that in fi fty years’ time, twenty millio ...

Decline, Fall, and Aftermath of the Qing Empire 113 that the Manchus had in effect betrayed China by giving in to Western demand ...

114 China in World History revolution against both the Manchus and the traditional Chinese fam- ily system. She returned to Chin ...

Decline, Fall, and Aftermath of the Qing Empire 115 Shikai, who had earlier sided with the empress dowager against the reformers ...

116 China in World History President Yuan was a heavy-set, jovial man who charmed his dinner guests with his witty comments, but ...

Decline, Fall, and Aftermath of the Qing Empire 117 iron hand; Yan Xishan controlled the northwest province of Shanxi, where he ...

118 China in World History (5) be utilitarian, not formalistic; and (6) be scientifi c, not imaginative. China was backward, Che ...

T he betrayal of China in 1919 by the Western democracies marked a major turning point in Sun Yat-sen’s political career and in ...

120 China in World History argued that Western imperialism was not just an accident of history but the logical result of the eve ...

Civil Wars, Invasion, and the Rise of Communism 121 suddenly many Chinese cities erupted with strikes, demonstrations, and boyco ...