Chinese Response To The Boxer Rebellion

For both, the leaders of each had to eventually sign treaties which angered the people and caused much discontent. In Japan, the shogun gave in and signed the Treaty of Kanagawa in 1854. The people felt that the shogun had given in too easily to the wants of westerners and were getting angry. In China after the Boxer Uprising, Cixi was forced to sign a treaty the created reform in China. She had not been doing what was right with the purpose of the Boxers, and other countries needed her to take more control than let it happen as she was doing (China and the New Imperialism).

Much like in Japan when Matthew Perry of the United States came in and insisted in having Japan open up its ports to diplomatic and commercial relations with the US, and since the shogun felt he had no other option, he complied with Perry’s order. As the westerners had their way with both east Asian nations, the threat of western industrialization became a reality, and due to the amount of hunger and economic depression in their societies, their people began to crave industrialization seeing the amount of success in the western societies that were industrialized. There began to be an increased amount of rebellion, and a fight for change in these two nations, but the results that came from these rebellions and the main argument for these rebellions differed.

This had led to British completely outmuscling the Chinese with their far superior technology, as well as forcing the Chinese into a treaty that opened up numerous ports in China, allowed Westerners to move to China, as well as pay reparations to the British. This utter defeat showed the Chinese that they needed to adapt, and our second document, a map forecasting the partition of China amongst various nations, showed them that they needed to make those changes quick. All of this led to arguments between groups who felt China needed to self-strengthen and those who feared the increasing influence of Western ideals that could be brought on by learning more about the West in order to better defend against it. This is shown in our third document on self-strengtheners, such as Feng Guifen who argues for youths to be taught in Western languages and sciences in order to best defend against them. This document shows further the nationalism within China, as well as the importance of traditions, ideals, and values, as both sides argue their points based on protecting them from Western

After The Boxer Rebellion, many aspects of Chinese society changed. The rebellion ended with the signing of The Boxer Protocol, on September 7 1901. In the agreement, forts and walls protecting Beijing were to be destroyed. Also Chinese government officials that supported the uprising were to be punished. China was to stop importing arms for two years and was forced to pay more than 330 million in reparations to foreign nations involved.

As soon as Chinese found out about the policy they were not happy but, as the biggest trade operator in the world we had to show them who had the power by defeating them in war. “The outcome of the Boxer Rebellion is in a short term the United States and the other imperial powers won and beat back the Boxers and massacred a number of the Boxers” (Plante). Imperial powers have more access to a higher military power versus the trained martial art boxers. America should've gotten involved because if we didn't the Chinese would continue to hurt innocent people and much

While The boxer rebellions is still ongoing, the British were selling opium, a poisonous drug made from poppy plants, to the chinese people. The British colonies refused to stop importing opium and continued selling opium to injure the chinese. In document 1 The Opium War, The chinese suffered shameful defeat and were forced to sign the Treaty of Nanjing, which gave Britain the island of Hong Kong and free from the chinese laws at the chinese ports. China’s humiliated lost made them resist against the British rule, eventually leading to the Opium Wars. Although they were manipulated by the British, they still resisted to prove their loyalty and their love for their country. This indicates that the chinese people show Nationalism by portraying the pride they have for their country. The chinese also shows ideology by showing loyalty to their sacredness and ancient culture. In conclusion, imperialism altered China to a country that has nationalism and pride for their

(1850-1864) The Taiping Rebellion resulted in a lot of damage in political power that caused weakness within the Qing dynasty in China. However, the uproar lasted 14 years before it was suppressed with the help of European descendant which manifested into a Western trained and

The humiliation caused by the defeat in the Sino-Japanese War of 1895 stirred up nationalism in China as well as resentment against European-powers. It was believed that the Europeans were driving China’s domestic and foreign policy and that is was important to reclaim China for the Chinese to return to Confucian values. In 1898, the situation escalated when a group called the “Boxers” (officially “Righteous Harmony Fists”) began a rebellion in north China in the Shantung Province. In this province, Germans dominated the rail lines, factories and coal mines

During the Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895), China had tried to fight hard to resist the foreigners, but had lost, due to its lack of modernized technology. In the year of 1900, the Boxer rebellion had surfaced. During this time the Boxer movement had shifted to Beijing, where they killed millions of Chinese Christians and Christian missionaries, as well as destroying churches and railroad stations. During this time America had feared that the Boxers would apprehend Beijing, and the US would lose all access to their resources. This idea had been drafted by the current Secretary of State at the time, John Hay. Hay and his team concluded that America’s interests; economic, strategic, and cultural, were best served in the preservation of the Chinese Empire. This led to the US’s involvement in the Boxer Rebellion. While we did not send troops to help fight in the war, we did voice our disapproval of any crimes against the Chinese

A Man named Hong Xiuquan who failed to pass the imperial exam to join the Qing government's civil service, experienced visions relating to Jesus, while he was suffering from an illness. Hong Xiuquan created his own version of Christianity, and gained a mass amount of followers; “In January 1851 Hong and the rebels declared the creation of their own state, Taiping Tianguo (Heavenly Kingdom of Great Peace), in the Guiping district of Guangxi” (Gale). The Taiping Tianguo was under the rule of Hong Xiuquan as he crowned himself king. In 1853 the Taiping Rebellion took over Nanjing and settled there, however the inability to reach Hong Xiuquan’s utopia in Nanjing caused him to lose focus and enjoy the pleasures of his palace instead of gaining more followers. Without Hong Xiuquan leading, the Taiping rebellion came to their end in the hands of Li Hongzhang and Zeng Guofan. In 1988, when the Boxer Rebellion was spread throughout china, foreigners and Chinese Christians were harassed because the Boxers desired to get rid of the nation of foreign influence. The rebellion itself brought a lot of hate upon Christianity specifically towards Chinese Christians. The Boxers were very extreme and their works ranged “From burning the homes and harassing the businesses of foreigners, they soon turned to massacring Chinese Christians and Christian missionaries” “In and around the capital of Peking (present-day Beijing), the Boxers killed Christian missionaries and destroyed churches and railroads, which were largely owned by foreign entities” (Gale). Once again, when Sun Yat-sen established the republic of china, he brought many foreign ideas into china, one being “the once unthinkable — that a Chinese leader would be a Christian — became a reality” (Christians in China). and that definitely helped the Chinese become more open-minded towards Christianity in China. “In 1949, Chinese

I agree to a larger extent that the Qing Government was primarily responsible for causing the Taiping Rebellion. However, other underlying factors leading to the Taiping insurrection cannot be ignored. This essay will discuss how corruption in the Qing bureaucracy, the incompetent leadership, the closed mentality of the Qing Government, shortage of land and impact of an alien Manchu regime highlighted the Qing Government as the main cause of the rebellion. The essay would also include the other causes of the rebellion, such as the opium war and natural disasters.

In the late 1890s, tensions between China and Japan were growing. China’s power was growing into the early 1900s as it converted to Nationalism. Japan felt the need to expand and conquer because they had been forced into the modern age by the United States, and they believed it was their destiny to exert government over other nations (Chang 23-24). The Japanese felt the need to do something before China became “too powerful to be conquered” (Chang 28-29). This put Japan on the path to war with China (Chang 25).

Both Japan and China lie in the East of Asia. ‪To a certain extent，Japan and China own similar culture background, in the Confucian Cultural Circle. But when we look back into the modern history development, Japan and China made quite different decisions when facing the western countries’ aggression. China suffered the invasion in 1840 after the first Sino-British War. Japan was in a similar situation in the black boat incident in 1853, the Opium War made the West began to pay attention to East Asia. From then on, Japan began to face the western culture. ‬The reactions, as well as the result of Japan and China were quite disparate. This article wants to discuss what lead to the difference. ‬‬

At the same time however, China’s battered history with the West since the Opium war of the mid 19th century was emphasized to demonstrate how Chinese has been constantly abused and mistreated by the imperialist powers. The CCP was portrayed as the right government to help

It has been said that the Self-Strengthening Movement was a response to the West. The repeated defeats which China suffered from the 1st and 2nd Anglo Chinese Wars convinced the Qing Court Officials that the western powers were not barbarians. Instead, their weapons were very superior. And the foreign powers have been kept seeking advantages and privileges from