The Boxer Rebellion In China

China’s economy increased since its trade extended to even Africa. The trade also helped shaped Afro-Eurasia into discovering a culture and helped show other parts of the world. Eventually, people felt a need to have some kind of government representative. Different countries began developing their own identity and were coming together simultaneously. There was much activity and participation in the world.

During the rule of Qin Shi Huangdi during the Qin dynasty, China’s government was based upon the philosophies of legalism. Legalists believed that all people were created amoral, and morality could only come from harsh punishments in society. As punishments, hundreds of thousands of peasants were forced into slave labor. Due to the extreme conditions, many slave laborers died from malnutrition and exhaustion. Today, China is still one of the most frequent instigators of human rights violations, which can be described as the deprivation of the most basic rights that all people are entitled to on birth.

France gained control of Indochina by invading and taking over the regions. The United States became an imperial power by invading, annexing, buying, or building countries infrastructure. The United States annexed the Hawaiian Islands and Puerto Rico to gain their resources. They also built the Panama Canal and used it as a source of income for the US. Russia expanded into the Asia through Persia, the Caucasus regions, the nomads of Central Asia, and many areas of the Middle East. The consequence of Western imperialism in China was the creation of the group The Righteous and Harmonious Society of Fists, also known to the West as Boxers. These Boxers, as they were called by the West, created a resistance that eventually led to the Boxer

Tiananmen Square Massacre 1989 The Tiananmen Square Massacre occurred after countless days of protests, mainly by college students, the Chinese government had become very frustrated when none of their efforts worked and they felt they needed to enforce their martial law. The Chinese government is a perfect example of how and why communism doesn 't work. Although they have changed greatly since the massacre they still have a long way to go in terms of opening up to the rest of the world and accepting the fact that the massacre was due to a fault of their own.

Thousands of demonstrators for democracy in China filled Beijing’s Tiananmen Square. They paraded around with a thirty-foot-high statue of the “Goddess of Democracy”. However China’s autocratic rulers weren’t in favor of democracy and got rid of all the notions that they were going to change. They ruined the festivities by running over the crowds with large tanks,

My family and I watched it on television where they broadcasted that because the university students, mainly from Beijing University were starving themselves and on the verge of dying, the military came in and removed them. There was no mention of students being killed, tanks or even guns at the scene. It was years later until I even knew that tanks would run over citizens if they weren’t fast enough to get away. Censorship was China’s favorite Photoshop. During and after the protests, everything was being tracked, opened and taken in order to keep this lip locked as possible.

The Boxer Rebellion was a revolt against foreign influence in religion, politics, and trade. Foreign and domestic tensions fueled the revolt. Nations such as the United States and Europe had significant commercial, political, and religious influence in China. Having lost many battles, particularly to Britain, China eventually was forced to concede trading rights to Europe and U.S. commercial interests. They were also forced to allow Christian missionaries across China. America wanted the Qing to accept western norms of political and economic exchange and to acknowledge the superiority of Christian civilization. Many Chinese came to resent the spread of Christian missionaries and their influence. Christian peasants resented the numerous Christian

The massive changes are happing to a short time just after 2000, the rising of China takes China to the “Gilded Age”. In conclusion, both China and America concentrated on the development of the economic development and ignored the inequalities of society, economic and political and just make the countries into an ostensible and flashy prosperity and full of greedy and corruption in the government for a long time. But now they make great improvements to change it and become better

How do you assess Mao 's foreign policy? Explain the logic, successes and failures After years of Civil War between the Communists and Nationalists, Mao Zedong proclaimed the People‘s Republic of China (PRC) on October 1, 1949. Thereby, the Communists replaced the Republic of China (ROC) which was under the sovereignty of Chiank Kai-shek, leader of the Kuomintang. The government of Chiank had to flee from Chinese mainland to Taiwan.

Contrary to the finding that “income inequality increases socio-political instability” (Alesina and Perotti, 1993, p. 18) current levels of inequality in China seems to have little impact on the societal status quo. Although China has experienced massive number of social protests, about 180,000 to 230,000 in 2010 alone (Gӧbel and Ong, 2012, p. 8), these protests are motivated by “abuses of power and other procedural justice issues, rather than being fueled by feelings of distributive injustice and anger at the rich” (Whyte, 2012, p. 6). According to a research paper funded by the European Union (Gӧbel and Ong, 2012, p. 36), income inequality is not among the top five motivations for social protests which include land disputes and environmental degradation. This data is evidently incompatible with a survey finding that income inequality is too great for 95% of Chinese as opposed to only 65% of Americans. Barring survey inaccuracy, high levels of inequality in China so far does not translate to dissatisfaction that leads to outright mass protests and instability.

During this time period china was basically falling apart. The Chinese’s way how government had no set way, and was constantly being oppressed by foreign influence. Every part of their government was flawed. They began all these programs and laws in efforts to improve their country, but they soon abolished it all. They were sending children away to study in foreign nations.

The revolution in 1911 known as the Double Tenth overthrew the Manchu dynasty, and the new Republic produced from that Revolution did not succeed in taking hold of China. China continued to be abused by foreign powers. These foreign powers forced China to agree upon unequal treaties and the reason they did was because they noticed the corruption, inflation, and financial chaos from high ranking powers. They lacked a strong central government. The Chinese Civil War was fought between two opposing forces – the communists and the nationalists – to see who would reassemble order and regain control over China.

Whether it is due to a highly stratified culture or foreign occupation, the Chinese were afflicted by a serious lack of pride. The first pages of “Wild Swans” describe

Tiananmen Square is a city located in Beijing, named after the Tiananmen located to its north, separating it from the Forbidden City. In 1989, there was a “massacre” of mostly college students from the government, due to protests attempting to overrun the one-party system and make it a democracy. The government claims nothing happened and wants to keep it like that. The book “1984” written by George Orwell in 1949, is a book representing the ideas of a totalitarian government coincidentally relating to some of WWII era’s axis governments. In the article “No One Died in Tiananmen Square” by William Lutz, Lutz argues that people actually died in Tiananmen Square through the use of repetition, through examples of government manipulation, and communist governments, much like how it is seen in “1984”

Reactions of oppression:violence and nonviolence Opression could be defined as an invasion of individual freedom . In the modern world, several countries are continuously restricting the freedom of their citizens .One form of oppression come in the form of imperialism. Imperialism was practiced from 1850 to 1914.The European imperialist viewed indigenous people as inferior to the “white man”. The racial views of the imperialist allowed the Europeans to travel and seize the native people of their traditions and form of government and colonize the land to strip them of their natural resources and civilize the native people.