For Monday's class, please read chapter 16, and be prepared to answer the following questions:
- How did the Qing respond to its defeat in the Opium War? How did foreigners react to this response?
- How much impact did westerners have on the majority of Chinese people?
- What were limitations of the "self-strengthening" movement?
- What was done militarily to combat internal rebellion in China, and what were the unintended consequences?
- Why wasn't there a complete colonial takeover of China?
- How did the efforts of the Guomindang (Nationalist party) play out?
- What inspired the May Fourth movement? Why did it ultimately fail?
- List the key changes in India's economy after 1857? Were they beneficial or detrimental?
- What is the root cause of India's poverty?
- How did the Indian response to foreign domination differ from that of China?
- What did the INC have in common with the May Fourth movement?
- What enraged Indians in 1905, and how did they respond?
- Why did most Indian nationalists support World War I? What was India's role in the war?
- What was the British parliament's declaration of 1917, and what sabotaged it?
- What did Gandhi get that the INC and the May Fourth movement missed?
- Why was the colonial government so repressive after World War I?
- What were the differences and similarities between India's and China's responses to the challenges of imperialism? (good final exam question!)
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