ruling Flashcards
(15 cards)
what were the causes of the 1911 revolution?
- private companies concerned that they would have less influence when the qing would take their railways
- qing built over peasants land and didn’t compensate them in full
- calls for a national assembly from armies and provincial assemblies were ignored
- resentment that the manchy used constitutional monarchy reforms to strengthen power of manchus such as through clan cabinet
- local armiees and secret societies were increasingly loyal to local leaders like yuan shikai
- new revolutionary ideas
- loss in confidence in the qing dynasty as they just kept losing to the west
what happened with the constitutional monarchy reforms under the qing dynasty?
- needed reform. court sent a mission of manchu princes and nobles to investigate foreign princes and nobles in UK, USA, Japan and Europe. they came back advocating for a Japanese style constitution within 5 years with a constitutional monarchy. japan was run well and was becoming stronger
- 1907 some local elections held an local parliaments formed. august 1908 the court issued an outline of the constitution
- cixi ruled that all legislative, judicial and executive power would remain with her and the new constitution could only consider laws
- the court began to curb the powers of provincial Chinese officials and replaced them with directly appointed manchus
- prince chun ordered provincial assemblies to be set up but manchu power was still protected
- 3 times in 1910 representatives of 16 provinces sent to Beijing to petition for a national parliament but each time they were turned away.
- chun organised a royal cabinet - called the clan cabinet as 5/13 were his relatives. 8/15 were manchu
what happened in the 1911 revolution?
- soliders were inspired by sun yatsens nationalst and constitutional monarchist ideas. in wuhan built IP a stash of weapons to overthrow the dynasty with
- double tenth where troops refused to obey orders
- killed qing governors and took over local govt headquarters. secret societies joined in and nearby provinces mutinied
- by November all but 3 provinces declared themselves as independent of Beijing
- yuan shiai was ordered to go and stop the violence. joined sun yatsen on the promise that he would become president
- yuan went to Beijing to tell puyi and his family tat they could either abdicate or be killed
- traditional manchu hairstyle cut off.
What was the government structure under the warlords
- general duan was the natural leader after he emerged as oremier following fighting on the streets of Beijing
- wanted to rule china under a republic government
- republic government was broken up into rival factions that had little power over the rest of the country
- the army was not loyal to duan, they were loyal to their regional army leaders
Who were the warlords?
- model governor wanted to improve working conditions and made reforms to infrastructure
- pigtailed general who was a Manchu warlord
- Christian general who wanted all his followers to be Christian’s and would baptise his troops with a firehose
- dogemeat general would grind his enemies into dogmeat and would smash his opponents heads like watermelons
What was the leadership and impact of the warlords?
- Warlords could secure loans by ensuring there would be customs duties and salt taxes paid to the West.
- They allowed their armies to live off the land, by pillage, looting and mistreating peasants.
- It brought commerce to a standstill and it was a new low in poverty and misery for China.
- Some were very rich and had the biggest pearls, or gambled – one lost $ 1 million in one night. They hired mercenaries, and had multiple wives and Western advisors and inventors.
- They took prisoners and demanded ransoms. The warlord armies increased from 900,000 men in 1916 to 1.5 million by 1925. Peasants had to hand over goods, and they paid departure levies, welcome payments and protection money. Extortion from companies was common and banks had to extend loans. Banditry, gangs and secret societies boomed.
- Some key cities became richer, but as a whole China’s economy declined. The trade deficit rose. Investment was uncoordinated and infrastructure disrupted. Natural disasters, poor flood defences from warlord corruption, and the weather bought about a famine that took 4-6 million lives in 1921-1922.
- Militarism was incredibly destructive. They destroyed the land as they moved through, and China was an agricultural economy. The armies kept recruiting men. People felt that nationalism was needed as regionalism wasn’t working. It was thought that order would arise out of chaos. The Chinese shared grievances which helped nationalism to grow. They realised they had to be united.
what were the causes of teh cuktural revolution?
- THREAT OF CAPITALISM: After the famine Mao withdrew from government. Liu and Deng allowed some private farming and began to reverse collectivisation in a local area. This started to work. Maoists worried that China wasn’t following Maoist principles anymore, and that Maoists would be removed from power. The party began to split.
- THREAT OF DECREASE OF MAOISM: In Russia Khrushchev replaced Stalin and denounced Stalin in a speech. Khrushchev was more moderate, and also wanted to introduce some market principles to improve the economy, and criticised Stalin for sticking to the extreme left. Maoists were worried this criticism would encourage reformists to criticise Mao. Khrushchev also criticised the Stalin’s Cult of Personality, which Mao saw as a criticism of his own propaganda.
- CONSOLIDATE COMMUNISM: Mao knew that he would die soon as he was in his seventies, and he worried that after he died China may not follow the path to true Communism without his leadership.
- The Maoists felt that a permanent revolution needed to begin, where capitalist elements are constantly searched for and eliminated to prevent the revolution from failing, as the capitalists would always try and stop the revolution and revert it back again. Mao worried that the CCP had become bourgeoisie and moved the party away from its peasantry origins. Mao and his followers also wanted the younger generation to have a formative experience which would make them committed Communists – like his generation did in the Long March.
- CULT OF MAO: Mao was celebrated in posters, statues, paintings and more across China. Lin, the propaganda minister started to turn Mao into a cult. His remoteness from public life helped this. He launched the Little Red Book, which the PLA were strongly influenced by.
Some delegates were sent to investigate the ‘reactionary elements’ that caused the failure of the Great Leap Forward. They said that corruption and collusion between local party bosses and the officials sent to implement them had made the Great Leap Forward worse. Mao summoned Liu to a meeting where he berated him for undermining the CCP and ignoring ‘peasant capitalists’ who he accused of causing the famine. The Maoists and left of the party became more aggressive towards reformists, Liu and Deng.
Wu wrote a play called The Dismissal of Hai Rui from Office’. It showed Hai a court official being demoted and punished after courageously defying the orders of a tyrannical emperor. Hai Rui was supposed to represent Peng at the end of the Great Leap Forward, and the tyrannical emperor represented Mao. The Maoists criminally charged Wu.
What happened in the taiping rebellion under the Qing dynasty? (1850-1864)
Largest rebellion and most threatening to the Qing dynasty, 50 million died in it, eventually crushed by the Qing and Western army – Ever Victorious Army, led by Hong and his believers, supported by the Hakka and poverty stricken peasants
What happened in the Nian rebellion? (1853-68)
Northern rebellion, poverty stricken peasants, Qing dynasty wouldn’t help them when the yellow river kept flooding, might have been a serious threat if they linked up with other rebellions – but they didn’t
What happened in the Dungan revolt? (1862-77)
Struggles between Han Chinese and Muslim groups - wasnt a serious threat but it took a long time to be stopped
What happened in the pan that rebellion? (1856-73)
Muslim groups rebelled but the QIng suppressed it with the help of the french
What role did Li play in the self strengthening movement?
- Cixi asked the emperor’s adviser Li Hongzhang to try and strengthen the economy.
- He was allowed to act freely as he wasn’t officially a government representative. This also meant he could avoid the conservative Confucius faction of the court who may try and stop him.
- Li decided to never challenge the political structure as he just wanted to get his reforms passed in the easiest way possible
- He did this by arranging commercial deals with foreign companies and governments in ports.
- He also created joint-stock companies where private and government agencies could invest in companies to help them grow.
- He developed Shanghai’s textiles industry He also made sure steamships were used to help with trading to help with making a profit. He developed telegraphs and railways to help infrastructure which would help with trading – which would help to make more profit. They did already have canals but these were too slow for China’s requirements in the late 1800s
- Li never embraced Western democracy or education. If he had embraced this it would probably have helped capitalism to grow. This made it harder to carry out capitalist reforms to the economy which would have helped the economy to grow more.
What role did Zheng play in the self strengthening movement?
Bank: created the imperial bank of china in 1897 and linked it with HSBC which gave him advice. Grew quickly and was successful but could not act independently of foreign influence.
Made improvements to merchant shipping in order to encourage trade, more textile, coal, iron and steel firms to be opened
- opened a university for engineering
- sent army cadres to japan for training and expanded the navy
What were the limitations of the she;f strengthening movement?
- focused reforms on the north, east and on the coast. The south and inland neglected
- self strengtheners made up a small portion of the population
-royal court was regressive, cixi had to side with them sometimes to gain their support - royal court misspent some of the money, cixi spent a whole years naval budget on a ornamental marble boat for the summer palace
- couldn’t train enough managers for their projects
- didn’t pay enough attention to detail in reforms to infrastructure, overlooked the fixings necessary to hold together the new railway tracks
- little sense of entrepreneurship
What happened in the 100 days reforms?
- happened because china was losing power and wanted to self strengthen after they had lost teh first sino- Japanese war, they had to sign the treaty of shimoneski in which they had to pay $230 million silver dollars to japan and give them treaty ports. The west had also began to gain more control through the scramble of concessions
- guangxu abolished Confucius exams as he waned officials to have technical and managerial know how to mondernise the economy
- reorganised industry
Lots of conservative officials where opposed to this and thus cixi saw this opportunity to stage a coup - she sent an army to the forbidden city and guangxu surrendered and handed all practical power to cixi
