Empress Dowager Cixi

announced that they would be replacing China as the most powerful Asian nation Chinese disintegration after 1895 being defeated in 1895 hurt the Chinese ego China was forced to submit to the rule of foreigners Empress Dowager Cixi was empress for almost 50 years Law and government Express Cixi (1835-1908) She was the last ruler of the empire of China She was very smart, more than the normal person A few weeks before she died she assigned a cousin to read to her will Chapter 46…

Introduction In the years before the World Wars, America was in the state of isolationism and in so they were unable to make their mark on China before the other world powers. President McKinley (1897-1901) decided that the United States should have control over some of the actions that were being taken in Asia. In such his Secretary of State, John Hay, drafted the Open Door Policy (1899) in an attempt to create room for American trade. The Open Door Note would demand that other powers would…

The Forbidden City The Forbidden City, known as Gu Gong in Chinese, was the imperial palace throughout the Ming and Qing dynasties—the years 1420 to 1912. It lays at the center of Beijing. It currently houses the Palace Museum. The Forbidden City served as the home of emperors and their households as well as the ceremonial and political center of Chinese government for nearly five hundred years.The most noticeable and vital aspects of the Forbidden City are the history, architecture, and…

Sun Yatsen is known as ‘the father of the nation’ (China). He was one the of the Chinese revolutionaries who brought about the ideas of modernism and the plans to regenerate the nation of China. Sun was the one who had taught the ideas of his revolution to the ones who triggered the double tenth (10th October 1911), where nationalists began an uprising against the imperial system. This was the the Qing, imperial rulers of China. The entire imperial system had lasted for about 3000 years, but…