Which IR approach whould say "History is the context that Chinese IR comes from, you cant understand the actors without it"
Constructivist
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What dynasty first unified China?
What years?
The Qin dynasty
~220 BCE
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What dynasty was a high point of unification in 700AD?
The Tang dynasty lasted 250 years.
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What and when was the Mongol rule?
The Yuan dynasty 1279
ruled over China using existing imperial systems
overthrown 80 years later by peasant rebellion
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What dynasty overthrow the Mongols?
The Ming dynasty overthrow the Mongols (Yuan)
completed the great wall to stop further invasion
Han rule
lasted 250 years
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What was the final dynasty?
What years?
The Qing dynasty 1644-1912
not han chinese
preserved confusion elements
kept expanding, Tibet and Mongolia regions
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What years was the republican period?
1912-1949
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What is the tributary system?
Foreign relations under imperial China
Sinocenterism and hierarchy are key features
Rituals and submission to Chinese emperor
Hierarchical relations/confucian precepts
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why did China have an opium problem?
Britain growing it in India, want to sell to China to rectify trade balance
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Why and when did Britain launch 'gunboat diplomacy'?
In 1839 China ordered destruction of opium warehouses.
So Britain attacked
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When was first opium war?
1839-1842
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When and what was the treaty of Nanking?
Signed in 1842 after first opium war.
first of 'unequal treaties'
begin century of humiliation
allowed full trading and citizens in trade towns.
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What were the conditions of the treaty of Nanking?
Missionaries and citizens allowed to settle in trade towns
Not subject to Chinese law
British allowed full trading
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What and When was the boxer rebellion?
1900
Rebellion targeted embassies and christian converts
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What and when was the boxer protocol?
1901
signed in wake of rebellion.
450 million tales of silver in reparations
Western and Japanese imperial nations able to establish extraterritorial trading ports.
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When was the first Sino-Japanese war?
1894-95
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What and when was the Cario declaration?
1943
end of unequal treaties:
Foreigners in China now subject to law
All territories taken from China by Japan restored.
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Other cards in this set
Card 2
Front
What dynasty first unified China?
What years?
Back
The Qin dynasty
~220 BCE
Card 3
Front
What dynasty was a high point of unification in 700AD?
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