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The Chinese people were unhappy with their life and corruption of government the rebel called White lotus society. Qing troop found that the white lotus society is hard to fight with because their ethnic was Chinese and they use guerrilla tactics. Finally, European power can helped Qing fought with the rebel .The White rebellion was happen in 1794 to 1804.
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Population doubled form 1650-1800. So, China don't have enough food for every people in the country.
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The main product that British trade with China was Opium and the demand of opium in China was strong. one day Chinese realized that opium was affected to their citizen and they tried to ban it from British and this thing affected to the china and British relationship. The fist opium wars was in 1839.
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Following the First Opium War in the 1840s, the Western powers concluded a series of treaties with China in an effort to open its lucrative markets to Western trade. In the 1850s, the United States and the European powers grew increasingly dissatisfied with both the terms of their treaties with China and the Qing Government’s failure to adhere to them. The British forced the issue by attacking the Chinese port cities of Guangzhou and Tianjin in the Second Opium War. Under the most-favored-nation
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Taiwan under Japanese rule is the period between 1895 and 1945 in which the island of Taiwan was a dependency of the Empire of Japan, after Qing China lost the First Sino-Japanese War to Japan and ceded Taiwan Province in the Treaty of Shimonoseki. The short-lived Republic of Formosa resistance movement ended to no avail when it was suppressed by the Japanese troops. The fall of Tainan ended organized resistance to Japanese occupation, and inaugurated five decades
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Boxer Rebellion, officially supported peasant uprising of 1900 that attempted to drive all foreigners from China. “Boxers” was a name that foreigners gave to a Chinese secret society known as the Yihequan (“Righteous and Harmonious Fists”).
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The reason that Qing fall can divide into 2 sections:
Internal:
-Population pressure
-Weak&Corrupt government
-Opium Addict Nationalism External:
-Trade with Europe
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In October of 1911, a group of revolutionaries in southern China led a successful revolt against the Qing Dynasty, establishing in its place the Republic of China and ending the imperial system.
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The beginning of the Republic under Sun Yixian, the founder of the Republic and founder of KMT
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Warlors era is when the control of the country was divided among its military cliques in the mainland regions of Sichuan, Shanxi, Qinghai, Ningxia, Guangdong, Guangxi, Gansu, Yunnan and Xinjiang.
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The war was interrupted when Japan invaded China in 1936 and by World War II. The war was fought between the nationalist government of China, also called the Kuomintang (KMT), and the Communist Party of China (CPC).
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The Long March was a military retreat undertaken by the Red Army of the Communist Party of China, the forerunner of the People's Liberation Army, to evade the pursuit of the Kuomintang (KMT) army
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With the December 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the Second Sino-Japanese War, which had been rumbling on since 1937, was transformed into a major theatre of World War II.
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There are a number of reasons why the communists were able to defeat the nationalists in the Chinese Civil War that took place both before and after World War II (and even, to some extent, during WWII). In general, the communists won because had more foreign support, and were more popular with the people.
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Communist Party of China authorities permitted or encouraged a variety of views and solutions.
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The Great Leap Forward, also known as The Great Stride of the People's Republic of China (PRC) was an economic and social campaign by the Communist Party of China (CPC) from 1958 to 1961. The campaign was led by Mao Zedong and aimed to rapidly transform the country from an agrarian economy into a socialist society through rapid industrialization and collectivization. The campaign caused the Great Chinese Famine.
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In 1966, China’s Communist leader Mao Zedong launched what became known as the Cultural Revolution in order to reassert his authority over the Chinese government. Believing that current Communist leaders were taking the party, and China itself, in the wrong direction, Mao called on the nation’s youth to purge the “impure” elements of Chinese society and revive the revolutionary spirit that had led to victory in the civil war 20 decades earlier and the formation of the People’s Republic of China.
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