Women 's Foreign And Domestic Policies Play

While Japan willingly changed their ways, China was not as enthusiastic, and instead formed some of their own rebellions to force out the foreigners imperialistic ways. Many chinese rebellions could be described as “God led” due to the spirituality of them. Two examples of spiritual rebellions would be the Tai-Ping, and the Boxer Rebellion. The Taiping Rebellion was led by XiQuAn, who believed that God was being brought to China. While the latter was formed in the 1800s as a secret society. In the Boxer Rebellion, the Chinese would try to summon spiritual power to rid them of imperialism.

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

First of all, imperialism impacted China by changing their ideology and affecting their nationalism. When China became imperialized, their identity changed by following the traditions and the law of the nations. The chinese were unsatisfied with the nation’s ideologies and rules, which lead to The Boxer Rebellion in 1899. A secret society, Righteous Harmonious Fists, lead rebellions around the country. In document two Western Perspective, it portrays Germany’s point of view of The Boxer Rebellion. Wilhelm II thinks the chinese have overturned their laws, neglecting their cultural beliefs. This is important because China is deciding to ignore the Nation’s laws and their Ideology. Even Though the chinese knew they would receive consequences, they still renegaded to have pride for their country.

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

     During the colonial period, granted the role of homemaker and mother, a woman was the center of the household. A woman was to immerse herself into the home and subordinate herself to her husband. However, as time progresses and the nineteenth century opens, the woman begins to work outside the home and emerges to breathe the air of freedom and self-determination.

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

Europeans maintained extraterritoriality inside many of Chinese port cities. Extraterritoriality meant that foreigners were exempt from Chinese law enforcement and on Chinese land; they could only be judged and tried by officials of their own nation. This kept them in power because people of their nations would let them get away with anything with no repercussions. The result of lawlessness of the Europeans combined with European economic, political, and military domination of the Chinese wreaked havoc on the Chinese. In 1900, the Boxer Rebellion saw that sentiment explode into social unrest and war. With encouragement from the Chinese empress, the Boxers killed multiple Europeans and seized the large foreign legation in cities such as Beijing. If Europe would have just learned to work with China this could all have been avoided. China could have controlled their major port cities, while Europe just makes demands on what they would like to have done. Also, China should have been allowed to enforce their laws on foreigners considering it is their

The Boxers were tortured and killed in public. The foreign powers did not take it easy on the boxers. There were even accounts taken that the Russians and the Italian troops were publicly executing boxers and raping women of rural villages. Another humiliating thing the boxers had to do was the signing of the boxer protocol. China ended up giving 330 million dollars for the eight nations to split. That may not sound like a lot of money but that amount of money in this day and age would equal to about 8.97 million dollars. Another thing to remember is China was not that powerful in the early 1900’s. This was the first time that foreigners were inside China, there was no recent experience with how to deal with outsiders because of China being

Throughout the history of the U.S., women have had two major social roles that were defined by gender. Women had two major roles, the first is being a moral compass for society. Women were seen to be virtuous and pure to the point that the idea of a woman stepping on the “wrong path” was horrible and made that particular woman worthless in the eyes of society and more importantly made her feel worthless to society. An example of this is seen with Helen Jewitt, Helen was tricked into sleeping with a man when she thought the love of her life was dead. After she slept with the man she felt terrible and was left stranded, she made her way to New York where she became a prostitute. In one of her letters to her parents, Helen writes of how ashamed she is and what a disgrace she is to her parents and that she can never go home because she would be the talk of the town. Helen is a prime example of how women that “failed” to live up to the rigid morals of society felt and how they were perceived by others. Women as keepers of morals can be seen in the American Female Moral Reform Society Warns Mothers About the “Solitary Vice,” 1839. Just the title of the document and the name of the activist group shows how much women were seen as the keepers

The role of women in society in the United States has undergone dramatic changes over the past several decades. For instance, an increasing number of women have taken on new responsibilities besides the traditional ones at home and taken up paying work. Besides making up a lot more of the work force than before, more women are also taking up leadership roles and have also made great progress on health issues affecting women. While World War II and the feminist revolution of the Sixties did a lot to redefine gender roles in American society, equality has not yet been fully realized for women in America.

In the movie, the producer discussed about the struggle women, which includes minorities women had to face in America such as cratering for the family, working, and at the same time treated like they were nobody in the society. The ladies with low income rate had to live with cheap cloths and bedroom with no windows. Likewise, there was no law or rules that prevent men from attracting the ladies who decided to protest against the action. It was a patriarchal society. Most women worked at the Triangle short way factory and the men made sure the ladies worked very hard and was pay low wages. Also, the producer analyzed that the women and children were locked in the factory and none of them were able to leave until their hours were completed.

The role of women in the United States has changed dramatically in the last couple of decades. For one, women have taken on responsibilities outside the home, such as joining the paid workforce. While women made up only about one third of the workforce in 1969, women today make up half of the paid workers in the US. Women are also stepping up to lead the country as well as making progress on health issues. Over the past few years women have been able to end gender discrimination, however substantial inequalities still remain. During the “Old English” period women were generally involved in tasks that required little physical work. While men were ox-herders, laborers, swine-herders and so forth women were cheese makers and dairy maids. They were also bakers, not cooks. Women of this time were also entertainers, comedians, and singers. They may have been employed by households or traveling groups. Women were considered “unimportant” during this time and had very little, to no, equality to men.

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

Let us now move on to the second source, Joseph W. Escherick’s The Origins of the Boxer Uprising. According to Escherick, the Boxer Rebellion has traditionally been a misunderstood concept in historical studies despite it being one of the most well know events in Chinese history (pg.xiii). Specifically, Escherick argues that the Boxer Rebellion is plagued by two common misunderstandings. The first misunderstanding is that the Boxers have been considered a pugilist movement rather than a shamanistic one.

Although identity plays an essential part in our sense of belonging and how we define whom we are, this essay will argue how viewing identity as essential, primary and cohesive causes a hierarchy between societal groups, which has affected a plethora of conflicts in global politics. Therefore it is important that we move away from thinking about identity in these ways to understand how identities are socially constructed and inherently dynamic and non-binary. From the perspective of Feminist International Relations theory, and employing the concept of intersectionality and the works of post-modern feminist international relations theorists, Judith Butler, Ann Tickner, and Christine Sylvester will be used to support my argument from the approach of gender identity. I will first define identity and gender, and how they relate to global politics and feminist international relations theory. I will then introduce specific concepts of post-modern feminist international relations theory and intersectionality. Finally, the case studies of conflicts where the nature of women is predetermined by their constructed, binary gender such as, women combatants in the military, women in the Viet Cong during the Vietnam War, will be used to illustrate the flaws of gender hierarchies caused by viewing identity as essential, primary and cohesive and how this can affect global politics. Therefore, it is important that we move away from a sense of identity as essential, primary and cohesive to