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Western Imperialism in China
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Western Imperialism in China
History, development & demise of control of China by West, 1793-1949. Differences in cultures & world views, Chinese misperceptions about West, Boxer Rebellion, Communist revolution.
2,250 words (approx. 9 pages) |
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1996
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"In the fifty-eighth year of the reign of the Emperor Qianlong, emissaries from a remote and obscure princeling somewhere off across the South Sea were politely received at the Imperial Court in what is now Beijing. Such embassages were not common, but they were not entirely unknown. If it was judged convenient to do so, a foreign ruler might acknowledge the formal overlordship of the Emperor as ruler of All Under Heaven, in turn for which his people would be permitted to enter trade relations, and encouraged to learn the arts and manners of civilization from an empire that had been the supreme embodiment of these things for three thousand years.The princeling's emissaries offered examples of their own manufactures and other products. The manufactures were acknowledged to be ingenious, but it was less obvious that they..."
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