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History of China

Questions about Chinese people, events, customs and cultures, including the various Chinese dynasties in existence throughout nearly 5000 years of China's history.

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What social reform did tai ping rebellion demand?

here an idea get it for yourself by reading it in the textbook or book

What are facts about the warring state period in China?

The Warring States Period in China occurred between 476 BCE and 221 BCE. It is also called the Era of Warring States. It was a period in China when regional warlords conquered the smaller states around them and established their rule. There were seven major "warring" states involved. It was a shift in power in China.

How did US foreign policy at the turn of the century affect actions taken by the US toward China?

While American policy did more than is perhaps generally, realized to preserve China from classic imperialism, it still fell short.

The foreign policy of the United States affected actions because it caused different interactions to take place between the United States and China.

What region of China was invaded by Japan?

Manchuria was not china.

■(Part1)The Second Sino-Japanese War was a conflict caused by China. Japan was dragged into a war she had not sought. During the war, Japan never made any territorial demands, nor did she make any demands on interests in China. This is made clear from the Funatsu Peace Initiative (Aug. 1937), the Trautmann Peace Initiative (Dec. 1937), etc., wherein no such demands are made.

(Part2)In Jan. 1938, seeing that no Chinese reply to the Trautmann Peace Initiative was forthcoming though the deadline had come, Japanese prime minister Konoe Fumimaro gave up hopes for peace, declaring, "We will no longer deal with KMT Chiang Kai-shek." Nonetheless, he made many appeals for peace afterward. In November of that year came the second Konoe declaration, wherein he appealed for international justice, and joint anti-communism and economic cooperation among Japan, Manchuria, and China.

(Part3)Then in December came Konoe's third declaration. This was a call for "neighborly friendship, anti-Communist cooperation, and economic cooperation." There is nothing in any of these indicating aggressive intentions toward, or designs on ruling, China. The Second Sino-Japanese War was a conflict caused by China.

■(Part1) If you read the Funatsu Peace Initiative (Aug. 1937), the Trautmann Peace Initiative (Dec. 1937), you will know Japan never made any territorial demands in China. What goals and with what manner of policies and spirit did the Japanese military fight? There is a suitable document to show this. The booklet, dated 29 April, 1940, titled "Orders for Officers and Men of the Expeditionary Force," by Itagaki Seishirô, the China Expeditionary Army's chief of staff.

(Part2)This document stresses that the object of the hostilities was not the Chinese people themselves, but rather the administration of Chiang Kai-shek, which had linked up with Britain, America, France, and the Soviet Union. To break down the perception that it was otherwise, this document states that the objective in fighting the war was to establish a cooperative relationship grounded on moral principles with Japan, China, and Manchuria.

(Part3)The document clarifies that the fundamental goal was the rebuilding of East Asia and the establishment of a New Order in East Asia. Itagaki called for respect of Chinese traditions, manners, and customs, and said his forces had to aim for a joining of the two peoples with respect, faith, and love. This confirms that there were no thoughts of contempt for China.

(Part4)The booklet "Orders for Officers and Men of the Expeditionary Force" is something intended to clarify that the Japanese army did not have as its goal the subjugation of China in the fighting that went on after that. The latter document, as a supplement to the former, negates the criticism of Japan as an aggressor against China. It is good to read them together.

■(Part1)There are a lot of historical facts about which the Chinese government never tries to tell the Chinese citizens. A historian of Chinese history, Kou Bunyu, writes about one of those historical facts as follows. In 1906, after the Russo-Japanese War, Japan gained interests in the South Manchuria Railway and built up industries. China at the time, however, was in a disordered state, with a high crime rate, and internal conflicts occurring all across the country.

(Part2)Japan accordingly established the Kwantung Garrison to maintain the public order in appurtenant areas of the railway, as some Western nations had done similar things in other parts of China. After the Mukden Incident in 1931, Japan established Manchukuo. Since 1906 till the end of Manchukuo in 1945, i.e., during the period when the region had been under Japanese rule, it had been free from China's internal conflicts, and a lot of Chinese people flooded into this peaceful region.

(Part3)Its population had nearly doubled in the 20 years from 1912 (the year of Xinhai Revolution) till 1931 (the year of the Mukden Incident), rising from 18 to 30 million. The Chinese people had undoubtedly regarded Manchukuo, built by Japan, as a place of peace. The Chinese government has been teaching Chinese children that the Japanese are savages, having committed cruelties in various parts of China. This is an utter falsehood.

■(Part1)The Tungchow Mutiny (Chinese: 通州事件) was an assault on Japanese civilians and troops by East Hopei Army in Tungchow, China on 29 July 1937 shortly after the Marco Polo Bridge Incident that marked the official beginning of the Second Sino-Japanese War. 250 civilian residents of Tungchow were killed in the uprising (predominantly Japanese reserves, including police and ethnic Korean-Japanese).

(Part2)The majority of women were raped and some were brutally killed. Only around 60 Japanese civilians survived, but much of the city was destroyed in the fighting. This massacre was occurred in July 1937, which means before the so-called Nanking Massacre. How much Chinese killing way of the Tungchow Mutiny is similar to the so-called Nanking Massacre? The Nanking Massacre was born from Chinese imaginations and created by Kuomintang of China.

What type of ruler was Shi Huangdi?

he WA a very very strict ruler and killed anyone who opposed him.!!.

What best describes how art in Buddhist cave temples along the silk road reflects the beliefs of the Chinese people?

The Buddhist cave temples along Silk Road reflect the beliefs of Chinese people. The art was created during the Han dynasty.

Contributions of ancient china to the world?

China was the first to introduce a complete school system, made several contributions toward the study of mathematics, invented the seismograph and the compassand developed iron and steel. Other Chinese inventions that have contributed to the development of all of civilization including paper, fireworks, and the small pox inoculation.

The Chinese began using paper, made from rice straw, for toilet purposes in the sixth century, AD. Also, the Chinese began to have a paper currency in the early 9th century.

The Chinese began to use wood block printing in the 7th century where the text is carved into the wood blocks which are then inked. A blank sheet of paper is placed over the inked block so that the image can be transferred to the paper.

The first known recipe for saltpetre, the principal ingredient of gunpowder, can be found in a Chinese military manual written by Wu Ching Tsung Yao from 1044 (Burke, 1978).

The ability to magnetize iron by placing it near a loadstone was known to ancient civilizations. But, it was the Chinese who applied this principle of magnetism to create the compass.

The next significant development was the use of a magnetized needle that was floated in a bowl of water on a piece of wood or suspended by a silk thread--these compasses were used by the 8th century in China.

Other contributions are the wheel barrow, grindstone, and the horizontal loom.

The Chinese contributed to education by introducing the first complete school system during the Western Zhou Dynasty during 1100-771 BC. The school system consisted of a seven-year junior level, followed by nine years of a senior level education. The educational system "was integrated with an official selection system." These schools served as training places for officials and were run by the local government.

http://www.academon.com/lib/paper/65622.HTML

http://www.engr.sjsu.edu/pabacker/history/china.htm

What are the examples of a culture effect that trade had on the people that used the silk road?

Cultural effect that trade had on the people who used the silk road were, that they were introduced of Buddhism to China. XD

Why do you think the land route to china was called Silk Road?

china was famous for silk. the silk road was used for trading. silk was traded so they called it the silk road.

How did the Boxer Revolution end?

Boxer Uprising, Chinese nationalist revolt against foreigners, the representatives of alien powers, and Chinese Christians in 1900. Expulsion of all foreigners from China was the ultimate objective of the uprising. In 1899 a secret society of Chinese called the Yihetuan ('Society of Righteousness and Harmony'), known by Westerners as the Boxers, began a campaign of terror against Christian missionaries in the northeastern provinces. Although the Boxers were officially denounced, they were secretly supported by many of the royal court, including the Dowager Empress Cixi (Tz'u-hsi). Economic and political exploitation of China by various Western powers and Japan and humiliating military defeats inflicted by Britain in the Opium Wars (1839-1842, 1856-1860) and by Japan in the First Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895) were the main causes of Chinese resentment, compounded by general economic problems.

The terrorist activities of the Boxer society gradually increased during 1899 with Boxer bands attacking Christians on sight. When these bands entered the Chinese capital, Beijing, the foreign powers dispatched a small relief column from Tianjin (Tientsin) to secure their interests and citizens in the capital. On June 13 Cixi ordered imperial troops to turn back this column, and the ensuing crisis culminated on June 18, 1900, in a general uprising in Beijing, with Cixi ordering that all foreigners be killed. Many foreigners and others took refuge in the part of the city where the foreign legations were located; the area was placed under siege by the rebels. A larger relief expedition consisting of British, French, Japanese, Russian, German, and American troops relieved the besieged quarter and occupied Beijing on August 14, 1900. The relief forces retained possession of the city, looking for and punishing anti foreign actions, until a peace treaty was signed on September 7, 1901. By the terms of the treaty the Chinese were required to pay, over a period of 40 years, a large indemnity. Other treaty provisions included commercial concessions and the right to station foreign troops to guard the legations in Beijing and to maintain a clear corridor from Beijing to the coast. Despite efforts by the United States to stop further territorial encroachment (see Open Door Policy), Russia extended its sphere of influence in Manchuria during the revolt, a policy which culminated in the Russo-Japanese war (1904-1905).

Some governments, notably Britain and the United States, tried to mitigate the indemnity payments by using them to finance scholarships for Chinese students. In 1924, the United States Senate remitted all further payments. In China the defeat further discredited the ruling Qing (Manchu) dynasty and accelerated political developments toward revolution.

Open Door Policy, term that refers to the principle of equal trading rights in China at the end of the 19th century. It is also used to describe policies of equal trading rights in other countries. In the late 1800s, the major European powers had obtained control of important areas of China, and it appeared that the country would soon be divided into spheres of influence into which other trading nations would have no access. The United States was unwilling to compete for territory, but desired access to China for trading purposes. Accordingly, in 1899 and 1900 U.S. Secretary of State John Milton Hay negotiated an agreement with Britain, France, Germany, Russia, Italy, and Japan that guaranteed "equal and impartial trade with all parts of the Chinese Empire" and preservation of "Chinese territorial and administrative" integrity.

The open door agreement remained the basis of U.S. policy toward China until the establishment of the Communist regime there in 1949; Japan's violations of it caused friction between that country and the United States before World War II.

The failure of chiang Kai-sheks forces in the Chinese civil war can largely be blamed on?

His weak and corrupt leadership. Also a number of strategic errors he made: firing many of his professional soldiers after WW 2, who were quickly offered a job by the Communists. The second was retreating his forces to the defence of the cities, thereby leaving the countryside wide open to the Communist, who then had control of China's - and the cities' - food supply. When the US stopped funding Chiang (he had by then embezzled and/or misappropriated $ 6 billion in today's money) he could no longer pay his soldiers who then went over to the Communists in droves.

Was trading important to ancient China?

The Silk Road took silk from China into ancient Europe. The Roman Empire had trade links with China, and the rich Roman citizens often wore silk garments.

Who are some famous people from ancient China?

Chiang Kai-shek was the leader of the Chinese Nationalist Party. Chiang Kai-shek and his party were driven from the mainland and set up an government in exile in Taiwan with it's capital in Taipei. He then became the leader of the government in exile until his death in 1975.

Did China have a monarchy?

thay did have one but the last 1 Emperor Pu Yi who died.

What best describes the silk road?

A trade route connecting China to the Meditteranean
An ancient trade route between China and Europe. :P

How do you write 1-12 in Chinese?

One: 一 (yi)

Two: 二 (er)

Three: 三 (san)

Four: 四 (si)

Five: 五 (wu)

Six: 六 (liu)

Seven: 七 (qi)

Eight: 八 (ba)

Nine: 九 (jiu)

Ten: 十 (shi)

What year did China detonate its first nuclear bomb?

The first atomic bomb didn't explode in China, it exploded in New Mexico, USA July 25, 1945. I'm 95-99% sure New Mexico had the first one.

What is the daily life of a Chinese teenager?

( This answer is based on the life of a certain class of Egytptian teenagers and there are obviously certain percentages of other different classes that do not have the same daily routine )

An 18 year old Egyptian teenager first goes to:

- University on the required days

- Back home for supper

- Study (Either out or at home)

- Out after studying with friends (either to play sports or just hang out) then went to bed with his wife!!!!

For some other teenagers they have other activites during the week and the routine changes a little bit.

A lot of Male teens go to the Gym three to four times a week after University. Girls also have this habit but they go only once or twice a week.

On weekends this routine changes. Teenagers are either found at work, or just enjoying their time off, doing something different than usual. Outings are different from the ones in the middle of the week. They usually go to either clubs or try different restaurants or simply goign to the movies (which sometimes happens also in the middle of the week). There's also usully a day off the weekend to spend with the family and parents.

In summer this routine also changes. A lot of teens get training in different companies or just work there for a certain time, then the rest of the summer is spent doing different activities just like most teens all around the world; either travelling, going out to different places and enjoying the summer at the beach.