HIS385H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Kang Youwei, Wu Tingfang, New Policies
Document Summary
Hong kong in china"s reforms and revolution. Hong kong was set as a model to apply the western ideas. Scramble for concessions, 1895-98 applied western ideas to chinese system- send children to the western for education. Most part of china still stayed in their traditional political system, but hong kong is going future. Japan bought weapons from the west to build their military base. Social structure in japan is more modern compared to china at the moment. 1894-1895, japan and china went to a war and both sides wanted to show their strength. very few western countries believe that japan has the power to defeat china. It is first taste of victory for japanese. Japanese forced chinese to open part of their territories for japanese to trade. Foreign powers believed that japan can be their potential friend after the war. Scramble for concessions was the break out for chinese empire. Convention for extension of hong kong, 1898.
