1. China and New Imperialism

2. Make a prediction: how will these poppies connect to imperialism and eventually lead to war?

3. Trade Relations Pre-1800’s strict Chinese regulations on trade
Limited European trade
China= trade SURPLUS
Traded porcelain, tea and silk for gold, and silver
Europe=trade DEFICIET
Buying more than they sold

4. Opium
British merchants began trading opium grown in India for Chinese tea
Chinese became addicted to the drug

5. Resolving the Opium Issue
Outlawed opium
Executed drug dealers
Britain did not stop selling opium
Results in the Opium War in 1839
British victory

6. Results of Opium War
Chinese forced to sign Treaty of Nanjing= unfair treaty
A 2nd Opium War forced China to open all ports to missionaries and trade

7. Taiping Rebellion Peasants revolted against the Qing Dynasty Causes:
Issues over land
Results:
Imperial forces put down the rebellion
20-30 million people died

8. Need to Reform?
Results of Taiping Rebellion led to debate about need to reform
Eastern vs. western way of life
Technology was disruptive?
Western religion contradicted Confucian tradition

9. Need to Reform?
Reformers in the 1860s began the “self- strengthening movement”
translate Western works
develop Western-style industries
Leaders still opposed change

10. Meanwhile in Japan…
While China debated, Japan adopted Western technologies
Japan joined the competition to create an empire in China
led to the Sino-Japanese War
China lost the island of Taiwan to Japan

11. European Powers Move in
Britain, France, Germany, Russia, and Japan carved out separate spheres of influence in China.

12. What is happening in this political cartoon?
What does it remind you of…

13. Hundred Days of Reform
Reformers in China blamed conservatives for China’s failure to look ahead
“Hundred Days of Reform” in 1898
Sought to modernize the bureaucracy, the military, schools, and industry

14. Boxer Uprising 1900: The Righteous Harmonious Fists formed
attempt to drive the “foreign devils” out of China
Boxer Uprising
attacked foreigners all across China
Western powers joined forces to defeat the Boxers

15. Results of the Boxer Uprising
Forced to grant concessions to foreigners
Conservatives recognize need for reform
Schools stressed science and mathematics instead of Confucian thought
China began to expand economically and a new business class emerged
Chinese nationalism spread

16. Webquest You will explore each of these events more in depth
Work with a partner to complete questions
Anything not finished in class will be HW