Chapter 19

Destiny Williams

Professor Patricia Andrews 

World History 2

March 2018 

                                Chapter 19: Empires in Collision

•  By the end of the 19th century Chinese recognized that their country was in crisis.
•  European interventions have been repeated since the first opium war.
•  China continued to face the enormous problem of widespread poverty among peasant population.
•  Foreign imperialism and peasant rebellion
•  The ability of China's vast peasant population to make it's presence felt in the political life of the country.
•  Large reparation payments from China's government
•  China's continuing weakness relative to European and Japanese powers
•  Many educated Chinese began to consider alternatives to the status quo and to make plans for changing China.
•  Some of the proposals were reformist and aimed at preserving the Qing Dynasty regime; others were more revolutionary and sought to replace dynastic China with a new society and political system altogether.
• More substantial change in China had to await the collapse of the Qing Dynasty and the end of the monarchy in 1912.