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d. Contact with the West increased in the 17th century, but in the early 18th century, the Qing rulers restricted trade to land outside the walls of beijing . The 1793 British mission to expand trade did not succeed, and the emperor Qianlong explained in a letter to George III that

d. Contact with the West increased in the 17th century, but in the early 18th century, the Qing rulers restricted trade to land outside the walls of . The 1793 British mission to expand trade did not succeed, and the emperor Qianlong explained in a letter to George III that China British manufactured goods.

Elliott is a notable researcher of Qing 1644-1911 China who has some expertise in the historical backdrop of its Manchu originators, In Emperor Qianlong: Son of Heaven, Man of the World, Elliott has turned his extensive semantic and chronicled abilities to a life story of the enduring Hongli 1711-1799, who from 1735 until the point when 1795 ruled as Emperor Qianlong, managing a time of amazingly quick social, scholarly, statistic what's more, natural change, Qianlong's mind boggling identity and rule are analyzed once again in Elliott's investigation. There are numerous cases of this with tests of these sonnets by Qianlong himself all through the book and pictures of himself, generally in a purposeful publicity style however. The book gives an awesome short clarification of how Qianlong ruled the country and how he lived in his home life. It points of interest his spouses and the amount he loved them and what he did with them on their many voyages together over the Chinese farmland. It really expounds the amount Qianlong was influenced by the passing of his first spouse and how it may have had an effect on how he led from subsequently.

For the last several decades China and Japan have both risen as superpowers and dominated the Pacific. Japan during the 1980s had the “economic miracle”, however it had a recession in the 1990s that set Japan back. As China becomes a rising superpower due to growing populations and cheap labor and, while Japan remains a “fragile superpower” because of the lack of resources and ageing population both nations will continue to grow, or will China become another fallen communist nation and will the tiger of the Pacific come to a roaring halt? Ever since the Four Humiliations in 1839 China was in desperate need to modernize and change many aspects of its government if it wanted to keep up with the ever-changing world.

Many Ming Dynasty officials resisted European trade and ideas because of four reasons. First, China was at the height of its power at the time that the Europeans came to China. Because of this, the Ming officials thought that China wouldn’t benefit from accepting the European’s request to trade. Second, China thought that the Europeans were barbarians, and the Ming officials didn’t want to trade with uncivilized people. Third, China’s main philosophy, Confucianism, influenced people into not trading with outsiders. Confucius taught that “people should place loyalty to society ahead of their own desires” (pg. 286). This meant that people shouldn’t trade in order to keep harmony. Lastly, Ming officials didn’t want Chinese people to adopt Christianity.

In 1793, George III of Britain sent a letter to China to verbalize with the Qianlong Emperor. His motivation was to talk about the condition of exchange in the middle of China and England, who at the time had enormously thorough

Dear King George, the evidence shows that the men have suffered too much with hypothermia, freezing temperatures and body pain. On the 31st it states that at night they had to sleep on a wet floor with no roof over them. This means that they were exposed to really cold temperatures. On the 27th it also states that it was snowing really fast at night and it snowed all the way till day. This means that the cold air and wind can make the men ill.

To the people of china, their culture, society, and government was superior to the rest of the world in preserving tradition and maintaining a stable society. They were not welcoming to the Europeans or any other foreign groups because anyone who was not Chinese was considered a threat to the Qing Dynasty rule. China's hesitant nature towards trade with Britain is indicated in Lin Zexu’s letter to Queen Victoria, 1839. When trying to negotiate a plan to take concerning the opium trade issue between the nations, Lin Zexu mentions that since China doesn't need imported products from foreign countries, no harm would be brought about if a decision was made to stop all foreign trade. This letter is a reliable source in that it accurately expresses China’s resistance to foreign trade while remaining respectful to the Queen who could become angered at the implication of cutting off trade agreements. In the memorandum written by, Zeng Guofan, one gains additional insight on the distrust Chinese show against outsiders. Spoken by a Chinese government official, we can conclude that his opinion is biased towards common Chinese logic on isolation. It can be put in perspective that the Europeans are becoming more numerous and therefore presenting themselves as a larger threat calling for reforms that would relieve this serious national ill. In response to these foreigners, the Boxer rebellion arose with a goal to attack foreigners and anyone with ties to them. In an attempt to eliminate outside influences uprisings such as this rebellion became increasingly popular and gained support from many who still believed that foreign influence was a

In 1793, Lord Macartney, a British diplomat, traveled to the Qing Empire in order to meet with the ruler, Emperor Qianlong, and discuss several proposals on the behalf of Britain. The primary source written by Lord Macartney details his observations of his meeting with Qianlong in 1793, as well as an overview of the system of government in place in China at the time. Lord Macartney recorded his observations in a journal, and saw the British government and monarch as his audience. The primary source written by Emperor Qianlong in 1793 rejects the proposals brought by Macartney on behalf of the British government and communicates this message through the media of an edict. The intended audience of Qianlong’s work is the British government, specifically

Throughout the time of Qianlong Emperor’s was in power his perception about the West were evident. His perceptions of the West were made evident through a letter he wrote towards King George III. Qianlong Emperor didn’t see any benefit of expanding trade with England. He didn’t feel that his country had a need. Qianlong Emperor felt that his country had everything and there was no need to expand trade. In Qianlong’s

China enjoyed a number of technological advances over Europe in the period running up to the 15th century, most significantly the development of gunpowder, compasses and printing. These inventions revolutionised European technology facilitating exploration, conquest and literature. Unlike in Europe, these inventions were not put to such use by the Chinese who held a fairly isolationist view. Meaning that they did not involve themselves in trade to nearly the same degree as many Europeans. In this essay I will be assessing China’s technological lead over Europe before the 16th century and commenting on the extent to which they held this lead.

In Inquiries Journal, Molly Kroker writes that the primary reason for Chinese chauvinism was the fact that “China was the most productive area of comparable size anywhere in the world.” Despite the dearth of engagement in foreign trade, domestic trade, which flourished during the Ming, made China’s market the largest in the world. Kroker asserts that the fact that Western Europeans traveled to China for goods, such as porcelain,

Qianlong's bold way of assessing the western nation's culture and traditions, calling them barbaric even, stems from his reaction, from his point of view, of how the West wanted to divide China up to suit their own needs and wants. He especially resorts to sarcasm about how tiny England is (paragraph 5, pg.2) and plays to his own arrogance that "Your England is not the only nation trading at Canton" (Emperor Qianlong Mandate to King George III, 2). Although this is true, due to trading with the Dutch, Spanish, (etc.), yet he did not have to go as far as insulting how the "lonely remoteness" (Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1913 (Letter dates 1793)) of England is and how they don't have the land mass and remoteness of the Middle Kingdom. Then to add further insult Qianlong ordered the return of Ambassador Macartney immediately and slightly threatened the British Empire (Emperor Qianlong Mandate to King George III, 4 ) that if they did proceed to trade where they were not supposed to they would be expelled quickly. Reading the article Qianlong is a very proud, fearless Emperor that had the guts to say no to Britain, getting his point across to King George that China would not bow down to them and give them everything they want, that China would not be assimilated into the Western culture and be used for Europe's own ends, yet Qianlong put into a way which made the Crown harden itself against China resulting in their deep animosity toward the Middle

The eight photos I chose were arranged in a particular order. The first four were selected from the Globetrotter’s Japan while the other four photographs were chosen from John Thomson’s Illustrations of China and Its People: A Series of Two Hundred Photographs. Moreover, the photos on the left side depicted the traditional Asian people and places, in contrast with those on the right side, which seemed to be more “modern” due to some western elements presented in the pictures. These eight photos well represented the themes that are recurring in the three albums: Asians in traditional dress doing menial labor without the presence of technology,

1900s China saw a century of fluctuating development and progress, which is recognised through various political, economic and social changes. The early division of the period encountered some change for the country yet this was not as significant as the latter change in which China’s political landscape metamorphosed into one of total contrast to the former. Foreign intervention was of course a reason and usually the root cause for the changes that occurred, particularly in the first half of the century until 1962 whereby there were still some minor influences by the foreigners but other factors seemed to have caused these later changes. It could be deduced that yes, foreign powers did have a significant influence over the transformation