HIST ch. 24

With the ascension of the infant Guangxu as emperor in 1874 came the regency of Empress Dowager _________.

Cixi

By the 1880s, a university system was offering courses in all of the following areas except:

Haiku

Among other provisions, the Treaty of Shimonoseki:

Allowed the Japanese to annex Taiwan.

In April ________ the new Emperor Meiji issued a "charter oath" in which he renounced, at least officially, the restrictive measures of the past.

1868

Like the Chinese "self-strengtheners", Japanese senior advisors to the emperor sought to use new foreign technologies and institutions to strengthen the state ___________.

Against further foreign intrusion

A ________ sect called the White Lotus sparked a rebellion against the Qing soon after the Qianlong emperor stepped down from his throne in 1795.

Buddhist

Why did diplomatic missions like Lord Macartney's mission in 1793 ultimately fail?

China felt no need to adapt to Western modes of international commerce and relations.

The most prominent of the ___________, which emerged in the 1860s, was Shenbao.

Chinese-language newspapers

The Meiji Constitution sought to preserve the essential traditions of ____________.

Confucian society

Which European power sought concessions from the Chinese on the Shandong Peninsula?

Germany

Taking the slogan Sonno joi ("Honor the emperor, ________"), a movement challenged the shogunate and forced the Tokugawa to capitulate in 1867.

Expel the barbarian

Through a treaty, the British imposed the policy of _________, by which their subjects who were accused of violating Chinese laws would be tried and punished by British consuls.

Extraterritoriality

After he had __________ and suffered a nervous breakdown, Hong Xiuquan came to believe that he was Christ's younger brother.

Failed his civil service examination for the third time

Kabuki theater was altered in the Meiji period by now:

Featured contemporary themes.

One of the outcomes of the Boxer Rebellion was a new "unequal treaty" that allowed:

For the posting of foreign troops in Chinese cities.

As a result of a British and French attack on Beijing in 1860, a newly created Chinese boardwas to handle Qing ________, and the Chinese were invited to send their own ambassadors abroad.

Foreign Relations

______ was the name given to the group of advisors to the Japanese emperor who sought to build up the state to protect against foreign intrusion.

Genro

Much of the resistance to the Emperor _________'s "hundred days' reform" program, issued in a flurry of edicts in 1898, was centered on the empress dowager.

Guangxu

Kang Youwei encouraged the emperor to implement a wide range of reforms based on:

Japanese efforts.

As the trade in opium expanded in the erly nineteenth century, heavily armed ships would unload their cargo of opium on small, sparsely inhabited offshore islands, from which:

Middlemen picked up the drug and made their rounds on the mainland.

The Chinese signed treaties with France and the US, conceding in a clause that any new concessions granted to one country automatically reverted to those who were "__________ nations."

Most-favored

he Treaty of ______ between the Chinese and the British in 1842 marked the first of the century's "unequal treaties" that would be imposed throughout east Asia by European powers.

Nanjing

The culmination of the trend to incorporate Western models into the Japanese _____________ was Natsume Soseki's Kokoro (1914).

Novel

Living on the edge of poverty in many areas, with old trade routes and handicrafts disrupted by the treaty ports, many _______ saw in the Taipings, the Nian, and other local rebellions a desperate way to change their situations.

Peasants

The commander of an American fleet, Matthew C. _________, arrived in Japan in July 1853, deliberately attempting to impress the Japanese with Western technological might.

Perry

The two key terms in the popular Chinese self-strengthening formulation Zhongxue wei ti and Xixue wei yong meant "Chinese studies for the essence" and "Western studies for the __________."

Practical application

The French, who considered themselves as ______, joined with the British in a war to force a new treaty upon the Chinese government in Beijing.

Promoters of missionary activity in the region

What was the basis for the society that Hong Xiuquan and his followers created?

Protestant Christian theology and pre-Confucian Chinese traditions.

All of the rights of Japanese subjects set out in the Meiji Constitution's 15 articles are:

Qualified by such praises as "unless provided by law".

The ________ Rebellion, led by Hong Xiuquan and his Christian-influenced declarations, began in 1851.

Taiping

One of the signs of the prominence of Cao Xueqin's novel The Dream of the Red Chamber is:

That an entire field of scholarship on the book is called "red studies" or "redology".

Whose monopoly on trade with China ended in 1833?

The British East India Company

Which of the following was not an early reform of the Meiji?

The accepting of thousands of American advisors.

In Japan, government encouragement of the cooperation of finance and industrial elites led to the formation of _________.

Zaibatsu