Transcript China & Japan Deal With Westerners

China & Japan Deal With
Westerners
Unit 5, SSWH14 d
Examine the interaction of China and Japan
with westerners; Opium War, Taiping
Rebellion, & Commodore Perry.
China & Westerners
• China doesn’t want to trade – very selfsufficient country
• Westerners were given 1
port for trade & China
sold more than they bought
• Britain smuggled Opium (drug) into
China – 12 million became addicted
• Opium War - China fought & lost
• Treaty of Nanjing: gave Britain
Hong Kong in 1842
• Extraterritorial Rights:
foreigners were exempt
from the laws of China
• Open Door Policy: Opened China
to merchants & kept China from
being colonized
Taiping Rebellion - “Heavenly
Kingdom of Great Peace”
• Chinese question leadership,
Westerners had rights
• 1850s, Hong Xiuquan created
army, took control of large
areas & captured Nanjing (1853), making it
the capital
• Qing, British, & French troops attacked
Taiping & by 1864 Taiping declined but lost
40 million people in the rebellion
Boxer Rebellion – Chinese
Nationalism
Chinese frustrated with foreigners
& their privileges & with converted
Christian Chinese
• Society of Righteous & Harmonious Fists
“Boxers” – secret org. attacked towns with
foreigners & Christians for leaving traditional
Chinese beliefs
• A group of multiple nations united&defeated
the Boxers – nationalism grew
Commodore Perry & Japan
• Japan’s ports were closed to foreigners
• 1853, U.S. Commodore Perry came into
Tokyo Harbor with 4 ships
• He gave a letter to the Japanese shogun
asking Japan to trade with the U.S.
• Treaty of Kanagawa:
1854, Japan opens 2
ports for the U.S.,
Japan’s response to
foreigners – modernization