L'imperialismo in Cina
Storyboard Description
La Storia Dell'imperialismo - Imperialismo in Cina
Storyboard Text
- Slide: 1
- Britain Imports Opium into China
- Something not quite right about this stuff.
- Britain began importing opium into China in the late 1700s. By the mid 1830s, over 11 million Chinese were addicted.
- Slide: 2
- Opium War
- Chinese officials began to seize and destroy large quantities of opium. Claiming a violation of free trade rights, Britain responded with military force. In the resulting war, China was devastated.
- Slide: 3
- Taiping Rebellion
- On to Nanjing!
- Chinese peasants grew increasingly frustrated with their leaders. A massive peasant army formed and struggled for over a decade for control of China. Twenty million Chinese died in this uprising.
- Slide: 4
- Spheres of Influence
- Britain
- Germany
- France
- CINA: DIVISO
- Russia
- Japan
- China controlled by foreigners!
- Seeing a weakened, vulnerable China, other nations began to move in and carve the nation into spheres of influence.
- Slide: 5
- Boxer Rebellion
- A secret group, the Righteous Harmonious Fists, formed with the goal of expelling all foreigners. These Boxers were defeated, but a new Chinese nationalism was born.
Image Attributions
- casablanca-Ocean waves and fishing boys - ustung - (License Attribution )
- Ching Yang Temple, Chentu, China [1908] Ernest H. Wilson [RESTORED] - ralphrepo - (License Attribution )
- Fisherman In Grand Canal By The East Gate, Peking, China [1907] Herbert C. White Co. [RESTORED] - ralphrepo - (License Attribution )
- Greatwall China [1907] Herbert G. Ponting [RESTORED] - ralphrepo - (License Attribution )
- Yong River Museum - jimbowen0306 - (License Attribution )
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