The West

1
The West the Fall of the Qing

• Macartney Mission (1793)
• Opium War (1839-42)
• Unequal Treaties
• Taiping Rebellion (1850-64)
• Qing Restoration
• Empress Dowager Cixi
• Self strengthening
• Open Door Policy
• Boxer Uprising

2
Macartney Mission

• As your ambassador can see for himself, we
  possess all things. I set no value on objects
  strange or ingenious, and have no use for your
  countrys manufactures.
• --Emperor Qianlong

3
Treaty of Nanjing

• 5 ports opened to West
• British take Hong Kong as colony
• Extraterritoriality
• Tariff restrictions imposed, and duties collected
  by Europeans
• Chinese pay huge indemnity
• Payment for opium that was destroyed
• No more deferential language

4
Commissioner Lin to Queen Victoria

• Suppose thee were people from another country
  who carried opium for sale to England and seduced
  your people into buying and smoking it certainly
  your honorable ruler would deeply hate it and be
  bitterly aroused.

5
Empress Dowager Cixi (r.
1875-1908)
The royal navy
6
American Imperialism

• The Philippines are ours foreverand just beyond
  the Philippines are Chinas illimitable markets.
  We will not retreat from either.
• Chinas trade is the mightiest commercial fact
  in our future. We ought to have fifty percent,
  and we will.
• --Senator Albert Beveridge

7
Boxer Rebellion
Captured Boxers guarded by US soldiers