Instructor:  Jean H. Braden
Room 252, Bisdorf Building

Telephone:   703-845-6357
email:
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Topic 5
The Chinese Experience with Imperialism

 

 

1.  What were the origins of the Taiping Rebellion?  What were the objectives and results?
2.  Discuss the origins of the Chinese revolutionary movement.  What role did the failures of the Hundred Days of Reform and the Boxer Rebellion play?
4.  Evaluate the success of China's 1911 revolution.  What changes did it bring?  What problems did it bring?
5.  Discuss the relationship between World Wari, the May 4th movement of 1919, and the rise of the Chinese Communist party 

 

 

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Empress Dowager "Hundred Days of Reform" John Hay
Boxer Rebellion Sun Yat-Sen Sir James Cantile
Kuomintang Revolution of 1911 "Agricultural Association"
May 4 Movement Professor Yang Japan's 21 Demands
Whampoa Military Academy Marco Polo Bridge Shanghai Incident
South Manchurian Railroad Soon Mei Ling Manchukuo
The Long March T.V. Soon Mao Zedong
Lintin Island Lin Ze Xu "Factories"
Matteo Ricci (d. 1610) First Opium War British East Indian Company
Shameen District of Canton Hong Kong Island Free Trade
Extra-territoriality Caleb Cushing Country Trade
   

ASSIGNMENT
Murphey, Chapter 114-15-16