China

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This paper reviews and discusses the history of China. According to the paper, China has undergone numerous changes. The paper goes on to say that the nation has proven itself to be very adaptive to external pressures. The paper further reports that much of this change has come since the beginning of the modern China era, which many scholars stipulate began at the Taiping Rebellion.

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"During this time, China also expanded its movement abroad to other Western nations (Panikkar 185). Anson Burlinghame, American Minister at Peking, was, on his retirement, appointed as a roving ambassador for China and accredited to all the Western courts. He first reached America with many joining him from China, and was well received. There, he negotiated a treaty on the basis of equality, which also included clauses upholding the territorial integrity of China and providing for reciprocal rights of trade and residence. Burlinghame knew the methods of Western diplomacy in respect to China; while in London, he asked for assurances that undue pressure would not be exercised to secure rights that infringed China's sovereignty. Unfortunately, before his mission could be completed, he died in St Petersburg. "

Sample of Sources Used:

• Michael, Franz. Taiping Rebellion. Seattle: Washington Press, 1971.
• Pannikkar, K.M. Asia and Western Dominance: A Survey of the Vasco Da Gama Epoch of Asian History, 1498-19 London: George Allen & Unwin, 1953.
• Reilly, Thomas. Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. Seattle: Washington Press, 2004
• Shih, Vincent. Taiping Ideology. Seattle: Washington Press. 1967.
• Smith, Richard. Mercenaries and Mandarins. New York: Millwood, 1978

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