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15 Cards in this Set
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Tongzhi
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-Emperor that reigned during restoration, but was a weak boy
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Empress Dowager Cixi
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-Learned how to use appointments, promotion, dismissal, and punishment to make herself the real ruler of the empire over her son
-Entranced in authority…no grasp of the need of China to be modernized |
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Nian Rebellion
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-1853-1868
Uprising againsy Qing -Introduced new patterns of mobile guerrilla warfare that threatened the prestige of the state's basic military institutions but were suppressed by Li Hongzhang |
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Zeng Guofan
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-defeated the tiaping
-enlisted to fight the Nian -put a hit on the nian leaders to execution but promised to protect those who surrendered -Took away nian food and man power -DIVIDE AND CONQUER |
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Hunan
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-Zuo Zongtang raised here
-He raised a volunteer army here and fought here first during Taiping uprising |
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Li Hongzhang
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replaced Zeng Guofan and supressed Nian
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Anhui
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Li Hongzhang recruited an army from here for Zeng but they were not loyal to him so the court switched the offices of the two men
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Muslim Rebellion
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-Rebellion going on in the northwest ganzu province against corrupt local officials
1862-1873 |
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Xi'an
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-Muslim rebellion errupted here and then spread westward
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Zuo Zongtang
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-given task of reclaiming west
-killed as many rebels as possible but was critisized for moving too slowly but evenutally the Muslim rebellion was put down |
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Shaanxi-Gansu
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area of muslim rebellion
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Jiangsu
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southeast costal province where a small tax (lijin) was placed after a fiscal crisis
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lijin ("a tax of one-thousandth")
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small tax placed on Jiangsu province
-too small to avoid, so easily collected -collected on articles of consumption -retained in jiangsu and not shipped to central gov |
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Tianjin Massacre
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-bloodiest example of clash between christains and chinese
-French officials treid to use Christian mission to influence french political movement -A mob outside of tianjin church, because rumors of children being tortured -French said leave, french shot and mob broke out |
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Zhili (future Hebei)
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after tianjin massacre, li hongzhang took over as governer general here
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