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Quing Dynasty
The Manchus established their own government that lasted nearly 300 years; During the first half they extended their territory and established their hegemony.
They followed the principle of Confucianism that consisted of "duty to he family and community is more important than a person's own needs and wants to reach harmony, -
Taiping Rebellion
It is one of the most important events during the 19th century, it involved China, France, and the UK.
It was a total civil war that had religious and political matters that altered the Quing dynasty by taking more than 20 million lives -
Self Strengthening movement
It was a period also known as westernization in which some reforms were made to try to learn the best of the West's techniques to adopt them.
It also was a series of military defeats -
Boxer Rebellion
People were tired of the political intervention so they took the decision to be anti-foreign, anti-colonial and anti-christian by killing people who were either foreign, colonial or Christian.
People were tired of the unequal treaties; Foreign powers that were taking advantage of China.
It is also known as Boxer Uprising or Yihetuan Movement -
Socio economic factors
The majority of the people were peasants, and they had a hard life because they were poor and they had to pay taxes to the Manchu Imperial Court so people started to experience famine.
The population grew 8% and the land cultivated only grew 1% and as if it was not enough, plots of land were reduced.
According to Confucianism, people could reveal -
Overthrow of the Quing Dynasty
When Pu Yi became the Emperor, a two-year-old boy took power that later made "" Prince Chun Regent, the last mentioned increased taxes that lead to the Double tenth in which tensions were developed that later would affect the revolution. -
Double tenth
It is when the Dynasty was finally overthrown and the republic was created; most of the provinces declared themselves independent from Beijing.
The revolution began when soldiers in Wuchang revolted and rebellion spread.
Later, an exile in the USA. (Sun Yixian) was invited to be president while Yuan Shikai was attempting an imperial government in the south -
Warlord Era in China and the government of Yuan Shikai
It all started when Sun won the majority of the seats in the National Assembly but Yuan ignored it and he intended to govern as a dictator and dissolved the National Assembly after making himself president for the next 10 years
He wanted a strong China
There was some opposition that made the 21-demands.
The south was still governed by Sun.
When Yuan died, warlords fought for power and control but it was more personal interest.
Taxes were increased. -
May 4th Movement
It was a movement in which students portested against the Versailles Peace Conference because Shanfong was in conflict because it was a German territory that later was intended to be given to Japan.
It was an intellectual movement in which there was a Bolshevik influence (Communist movement) -
First United Front
It was an alliance between the CCP and the GMD against the warlords in which they both agreed that living hood was a principle that needed to be kept but the alliance only worked until they defeated the warlords because the GMD was anti-communist so when the goal was met, the GMD attacked the CCP since the GMD believed in privileges and the CCP was communist.
The GMD expelled all communist from the political party(Massacre of communist in Shangai)and then it spread by becoming the White terror
