HIST 218 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Kidney Failure, Yuan Shikai, Sun Yat-Sen
8 Apr 2016
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1840s-50s japan looked up to china, copied china. Economic concessions by the turn of the century. Railroad building control indirectly the economy there such as qingdao. 1908 child emperor two years old emerges constitution reforms. Other reforms such as exam system, armies military org of manchus proven to be totally inefficient. Creation of armies by reformers by 1860"s under command of provincial leaders not under central control leads to collapse of unified state. Yuan shikai powerful warlord tries to go through exam system fails several times joins one of the armies that were created in korea fighting against japs but lost 1859-1916. 1902 appointed provincial governments in shandong suddenly being a governor in charge of provincial army not just province appointed by qing government but rules independently running by themselves. Qing dynasty was rolling into collapse long before 1911. Had some western edu. , or all western edu. , no traditional edu. Opposition difficult to go back will get arrested.
