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By: Katherine Darnell2nd hour World History

Mr. Delezenne

China And The New

Imperialism

The Trade Issue

Chinese rulers placed strict limits on foreign traders. This restricted merchants.

During these restrictions china created a Balance of Trade (exporting more than importing.)

On the other hand westerners that traded with china had a Trade Deficit (buying more than selling.)

Chinas main export was tea.

Herbal tea leaves

The Opium War In the late 1700s British merchants

discovered Opium. They started to Sell the opium grown in India to the Chinese because they didn’t want to corrupt their own society and they felt superior towards china. This would create a huge profit for the British.

When the Chinese became addicted to the drug merchants were received silver as their payments.

Chinese government banned the drug deals after many years but British refused to stop.

In 1839, Chinese war ships clashed with British merchants but with the British advances china was easily defeated.

British and Chinese war ships

Opium Houses

Unequal Treaties In 1842, Britain signed a treaty with China. The treaty gave Britain indemnity (payment for

losses in war.) Things they gained were…• Hong Kong Island near

Guangzhou.• Open 5 ports for to foreign

trade.• China did request to have

extraterritoriality (the right to live under their own laws and be tried in their own courts.)

The Hong Kong Island that China won in the

treaty.

Taiping Rebellion

As poverty and misery increased in china, peasants rebelled. Some say it was the most devastating peasant revolt in history.

It lasted from 1850 to 1864. Led by Hong Xiuquan, his main goal was to destroy the Qing Dynasty.

They took over large parts of china and almost completely corrupted all of the Qing Dynasty. They caused 20 to 30 million deaths.

The peasants held this for 14 years, but then regional governors crushed the rebellion.

The Taiping Rebellion

Hundred Days of Reform

After china was defeated by Japan and humiliated by westerners, a young emperor named Guang Xu launched a 100 day reform act.

During this period in 1898, new laws were built to modernize china and they encouraged new industries in china.

Guang Xu was then imprisoned after the court railed from tumbling affects from schools and military.

Guang Xu

Boxer Uprising

In 1899, a group of Chinese had formed a secret society called the Righteous Harmonious Fists.

Their goals were to drive out the “foreign devils.” Boxers attacked foreign communities across china.

The boxers uprising failed. China again had to give concessions to foreigners.

The secret society of the “Righteous Harmonious

Fists”

China Expands and Three Principals of the People

In China they started to expand with mining, shipping, railroads, banking, and exports of silk, tobacco, soybeans and other commodities grew.

The Chinese industry then developed along with a new urban workin8.

As Chinese nationalism spread, reformers wanted to strengthen the government. In the early 1900s Sun Yixian called for the “Three Principals of the People”.

The following are the three principals… 1. Nationalism, Freeing China from the current foreign demands.

2. Democracy, like a representative government. 3. “Livelihood,” economic security for all Chinese people.

Sun Yixian

Birth of the Chinese Republic

In 1908 a two-year-old boy inherited the throne, China turned to chaos.

Peasants, workers, students, local warlords and even court politicians helped destroy the Chinas 2,000 year old monarchy that was in control of the Qing Dynasty.

Sun Yixian then returned and was named president of China’s new Republic. Qing

Dynasty