POL 314 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Foochow Arsenal, Qing Dynasty, Mukden Incident
13 Apr 2018
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Poli 314 2: western challenge, the qing dynasty, founded in the middle of the 17th century, passed its peak towards the end of the 18th century, and began to show signs of dynastic decline. China began to face powerful challenges from technologically advanced western powers: the challenge took from of a series of military defeats from 1840 to the outbreak of. Wwii a period known as the 100 years of humiliation: during this period of time, the chinese came to realize that the (cid:862)(cid:271)ar(cid:271)aria(cid:374)s(cid:863) (cid:449)ere technologically far more advanced. China went into a period of social and political crisis: this period of modern chinese history left a very deep scar on the national psyche of the. It is taught in detail in chinese high schools: major events from the 1st opium wars to the 2nd world war, the opium war 1839-42, causes, british trade imbalance that they fixed through the importation of.
