Taiping Rebellion Dbq

During the three years of the Opium War, Great Britain destroyed much of China’s coastal and river forts. Under the pressure of the superior military tactics and firepower from Britain, the Qing dynasty finally surrendered to the British terms. As a result, China opened its five coastal ports to Britain, limited tariffs on British goods, covered the costs of the war, and gave extraterritorial rights to British citizens in the Treaty of Nanjing. Due to the increasing British’s presence in China, it concerned a few Chinese to adopt the foreign ways of the European civilization. In a way, the war opened China to the European influence, such that some Chinese even believed in transforming the Confucian civilization into more of a modernized European civilization.
2. Describe the goals of each of the following movements (a) Taiping Rebellion, (b) Self-Strengthening Movement, (c) Hundred Days of Reform, (d) Boxers.
a. The goal of the Taiping Rebellion was to overthrow the Qing dynasty and spread Christianity, and it was led by a Christian convert, Hong Xiuquan, who allegedly thought that he had the divine right to establish the “Heavenly Kingdom of Supreme Peace” in China. Additionally, Peasants followed him due to the anger and frustration towards
By 1912, the dynastic rule in China came to an end when General Yuan Shikai negotiated with the representative of the Sun Yat-sen’s party to become president of a new Chinese republic. Yuan was once a representative of an old order, and Sun’s party needed his assistance due to their lack of military strength and political power to reform the government. Not only that, the imperial forces and China’s internal weakness also prompted the end the old dynasty even before any attempts of political and social changes could have