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17 Cards in this Set
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Triads
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Secreted society that recruited in mid 1840s while British navy drove pirates away from the coast into the Guangdong Guanxi River.
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Guangdong-Guanxi
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river that the british drove pirates into that were trying to attack canton villages
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Shanghai
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new port city
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hakkas
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-most susceptible to western influence
-Northern Chinese immigrants to the south who were treated as an ethnic minority by original Cantonese settlers -High literacy rate and success in examinations -Spoke a Hakka language -More independent and powerful than Cantonese women -Economic competitors because women worked also |
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Taiping Rebellion
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-Pivotal uprising (1850-64) by the Hakkas
-Captured nanjing and created a new dynasty |
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Hong Xiuquan
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-his mystical revelations inspired the Taiping rebellion (1851-64)
-told to restore christianity to china |
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society of god worshipers
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-created by hong xiuquan
-They were baptized into a sect living apart from south Chinese country side -turned isolation into a community |
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Yang Xiuqing
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-Southern Chinese leader of christianty and follower of Society of God Worshipers
-Fell into a trance, woke up and spoke in a voice of the wholly ghost -Rivaled Hong for the leadership of this movement |
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Peking (the future Beijing)
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Lord Elgin ordered his troops to march on Peking, which they did, and burnt the summer palace to the ground in 1860
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Lord Elgin (James Bruce)
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-Britain's chief treaty negotiator
-Ordered troops to march on Peking in 1860 after the Qing arrested and executed some british there |
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Dagu Forts
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-Only British concession was to return Dagu forts to Qing control
-British attacked here, though, to try to enforce new treaty terms but they were driven off by strengthened Qing forces (this sparked Britains attack on Peking) |
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Xianfeng
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aggressively anti foreign emperor who was succeeded in 1861 by his five year old son, who's mother Cixi acted as regent/empress
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Treaty of Tianjin
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-Had to be ratified by the emperor
-Western reps to come to Beijing and exchange signed copies of the document -Chinese decided to resist leading to british march on peking -Terms: --british ambassador was to reside in Peking --had to have passports to travel --new treaty ports opened 1858 - ended the second opium war |
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Prince Gong
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-Powerful member of council of Princes
-Named as negotiator when british marched peking -reaffirmed terms of tianjin treaty |
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Rehel (Jehol)
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location of summer palace in Peking
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Convention of Peking (Beijing) 1860
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emperor promised 8 million taels in indemnity, permitted chinese emigration on british ships, made tianjin itself a treaty port, and ceded part of the mainland kowloon peninsula to hong kong
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Kowloon
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peninsula ceded to hong kong in convention of peking
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