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    Did Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Play an Important Role in the Westernization of China? Mao Zedong (1949) has ever said in On the People Democratic Dictatorship that‚ “From the time of China’s defeat in the Opium War of 1840‚ Chinese progressives went through untold hardships in their quest for truth from the Western countries. Hong Xiuquan‚ Kang Youwei‚ Yan Fu and Sun Yat-sen were representative of those who had looked to the West for truth before the Communist Party of China was born.” However

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    The First Opium War started in 1730 and ended in 1860    Timeline:    1730: Around 15 tons of British Opium was exported to China.    1773: More Opium was exported to China‚ this time‚ around 75 tons.    1799: The Qing Empire banned the use of Opium products.    1830:  The  British  dependence  on  opium  use is at its highest point‚ importing 22‚000  pounds of opium from Turkey and India.    1837: Elizabeth Barrett Browning falls by the use of morphine.’    1839:  Lin  Tse­Hsu‚  imperial  Chinese 

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    condemnation of the play‚ resulting in radical uprisings for the arts establishing the Cultural Revolution. Thereby allowing the Gang of Four to advance to high positions in the government and the CCP‚ giving them control. Who were the Gang of Four? Jiang Qing‚ Wang Hongwen‚ Yao Wenyuan‚ and Zhang Chunqiao were the Gang of Four. What was their ideology? The Gang of Four began working to gain influence and control of the party post-Mao. They were trying to protect Mao’s ideological beliefs. What was the

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    Yr 11 Term 4 Beijing Opera Seminar Beijing Opera or Peking Opera has a history of over 200years and is believed to of begun in 1790 during the reign of Emperor Qianlong. During his 55th reign the four largest Huiban opera troupes‚ consisting of 360 individual types of operas‚ combined. After a century of evolving the Beijing Opera was formed as an opera that best represented all of the operas in China. Beijing Opera became a blend of music‚ art‚ acrobatics‚ dance

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    developed and grew along the Huang He‚ Chang Jiang‚ Wei and Luo rivers‚ served as political‚ financial‚ and economic centers of the dynasties. “The dynasty is a series of rulers in a particular kingdom or empire‚ and each ruler in the series is said to be a member of the same family”. In approximately 350 BCE‚ Xianyang became the capital of China. After the fall of the Qin Dynasty‚ a new capital was established at the city of Chang’an near present day Xi’an. Chang’an stayed the capital of China until the

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    brought up more when China restored their imperial structure after 570 C.E.. In 819 C.E. Han Yu spoke up about how evil Buddhism can be and how it can cause the people to do whatever they please. His statement was aiming towards the Emperor of the Tang dynasty as he hopes the emperor will address the controversy with Buddhism and put an end to this belief. (Document 4) Tang Emperor Wu gave his response to Buddhism in 845 C.E. saying that Buddhism destroys the Chinese culture because it originated in India

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    Throughout ancient China‚ there were many dynasties that were set up. After one would collapse another one would soon arise and take its place. Because of this there were many different beliefs and government ideas on how China should be run. Some of the dynasties used each other’s ideas‚ but made them better so they succeeded this time. The two dynasties we will be looking at are the Han and Yuan dynasties. During the Han and Yuan dynasties‚ religious played a major part in their culture‚ government

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    The Taiping movement‚ an experimental revolution in China that struck a formidable blow to the Manchus in the mid 19th century‚ is widely debated and questions pertaining to its ‘character’‚ whether it was a Rebellion or a Revolution‚ remain largely unsettled. Some historians regard it as a full-fledged revolution‚ even to the extent of calling it the harbinger of the Communist Movement; while others believe that the former is a gross over-glorification‚ and that the Taiping Movement was no more

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    The Chinese mandate of Heaven was established by the Zhou dynasty as a description of how an emperor could rule or be deposed. It said that as long as the emperor behaved well‚ then he would be in favor of God and his rule would continue. However‚ if another clan should receive word the gods that they were displeased with the current dynasty‚ then you had the right to be overthrown. These signals‚(that an dynasty was not being ‘good’) could be shown through nature with floods‚ hurricanes‚ famine

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    The Sui‚ the Song‚ and the Tang Dynasty The period of the dynasty that unified China‚ the Sui Dynasty‚ began the year 580 C.E. and lasted until 618 C.E. I was founded by an officer of the Northern Zhou‚ Yang Chien (Emperor Wen Ti)‚ and his son and successor‚ Emperor Yang Ti. As an emperor Wen Ti in his early actions restored the Buddhists rights‚ their clergy‚ and ended suppression of Daoism. Emperor Wen Ti achieved the unification of China during the Sui era; also‚ the central government was

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