MMW 14 Chapter Notes - Chapter Reading: Tan Sitong, Liang Qichao, Kang Youwei

• School: UCSD
• Department: Making of the Modern World
• Course: MMW 14
• Professor: Edmond Chang

Document Summary

There were pushes to westernize and industrialize china during this time. The machines were really light and didn"t need much money to build, so many were built. Cotton spinning became mechanized with help from the government. Women weren"t allowed to work at most factories because it went against. Women were allowed to work at silk spinning because it was traditionally. Chinese elite that wanted to westernize china. He enacted the 1898 reform, but unfortunately this was stopped when he and his colleagues were killed in a coup. Advocated for the education of women so that. They can work and contribute to a household. They can be better teachers for their children. He also said that women should be encouraged to keep up their strength so that they can have healthier children\ Christian missionaries were educating women long before the chinese government was. These were often attacked because the chinese didn"t really like christianity.