HIS280Y1 Chapter x: Feb 6
Document Summary
Readings for lectures 10 &11: readings, taiping ten commandments (1852) Indicitative of the plurality in qint-time religiosity (mixing jesuit"s western religiosity with. God created earth in 7 days, but you need to respect your parents. Lord macartney on his trip to qing china. Visited in 1793 to meet qianlong emperor. From his western perspective, he observed chinese imperial bureacracy to be fragile. Too much dependence on grand councils" & tribunals" being compliant. His state is fragile (a slight collision, like flint, may cause fire of revolt: opium war (1840-142) - external qing threat. Carries great symbolic weight in china, because it represents the beginning of unfair treaties with western imperial powers. The rise of br as a great naval power dependent on foreign trade + china not wanting to accept european model of trade that wanted to achieve (+) balance of trade.
