Chinese History

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The paper examines four issues that are crucial to the understanding of modern Chinese history. The paper examines U.S-Chinese relations between 1840-1949; the significance of the "May 4th" movement; and the rise and fall of Chang Kai-Shek's KMT at the end of the 1940s. The paper further analyzes notable writers of the early twentieth century whose work still resonates today.

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"The Relationship between China and the US from 1840 to 1949. The relationship between China and the United States has been a very interesting one. The devastating Chinese defeat at the hands of the British during the Opium Wars of the 1840s had a deep, almost ineradicable, impact upon how Americans saw the Chinese. For instance, the Chinese came to be viewed, at least in some precincts, as a weak and servile people. Using their naval might, the British compelled the Chinese to do away with their habit of imposing tariffs arbitrarily upon Western traders; the British also saw to it that westerners accused of crimes were tried by their own consular officers and not through hostile Chinese courts."

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