This investigation will evaluate the inquiry: To what extent did the Qing Dynasty’s xenophobic attitudes inhibit Empress Dowager Cixi’s ability to prevent the downfall of the Qing Dynasty in 1912? The investigation will focus on the tenure of Empress Dowager Cixi between the years of 1850 -1910. The time period allows for the evaluation of the period before Cixi’s rise to power and the end of the last Chinese dynasty.
The first source is the Boxer Protocol of 1901. The relevance of the document is that the Boxer Rebellion is part of the reason how Empress Dowager Cixi contributed to the downfall of the Qing Dynasty. This primary source’s content entails a description of the exact reparations the Chinese government had to reimburse.
The origin of the official government document was produced by the foreign dignitaries of Germany, Austria-Hungary, Belgium, Spain, United States, France, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Russia, and China (Boxer Protocol). The value of the source is that the Boxer Protocol is a record and was the Eight Power Expedition Force’s candid response to the uprising. However there were some limitations like the exaggerations of the killings in the Boxer Rebellion and there was an extreme bias towards the Western standpoint. …show more content…
The edict’s intended audience was for the rulers of China and the foreign government wanted to legitimize their superiority over the current authorities by a publicly enacted decree. The value of the first primary source’s purpose is that this edict gave an official viewpoint of the adversaries of the Society of the Righteous and Harmonious Fists or the Boxers. The Boxer Protocol omits of the cause of the rebellion and the Chinese point of view in order to gain Western
The first source is the Boxer Protocol of 1901. The relevance of the document is that the Boxer Rebellion is part of the reason how Empress Dowager Cixi contributed to the downfall of the Qing Dynasty. This primary source’s content entails a description of the exact reparations the Chinese government had to reimburse.
The origin of the official government document was produced by the foreign dignitaries of Germany, Austria-Hungary, Belgium, Spain, United States, France, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Russia, and China (Boxer Protocol). The value of the source is that the Boxer Protocol is a record and was the Eight Power Expedition Force’s candid response to the uprising. However there were some limitations like the exaggerations of the killings in the Boxer Rebellion and there was an extreme bias towards the Western standpoint. …show more content…
The edict’s intended audience was for the rulers of China and the foreign government wanted to legitimize their superiority over the current authorities by a publicly enacted decree. The value of the first primary source’s purpose is that this edict gave an official viewpoint of the adversaries of the Society of the Righteous and Harmonious Fists or the Boxers. The Boxer Protocol omits of the cause of the rebellion and the Chinese point of view in order to gain Western