1-China

=China, 1750-1914= Courtney Boyer Alyssa Plesser

=Political=
 * went from emperor to empress __(Dowager Cixi)__
 * unified government became seperated due to rebellions like the __Taiping__ and Boxer
 * in 1912 __Puyi__ abdicated the throne
 * Self Strengthening Movement (1860-1895) and 100 days of reform were attempts to modernize and help China-changed economic policies and social aspects of empire
 * Power remained in the __Qing Dynasty__ until 1912

=Economic=
 * Opium trade was introduced to China in 1838 and led to the __Opium War__ (1839-1842)
 * China was forced into unequal treaties starting with the __Treaty of Nanjing__ after the Opium War- had drastic affects on their economy
 * China went from greatly restricting trade when Qiantong restricted European merchants to Guangzhou to being dominated by European presence throughout the empire and divided by spheres of influence
 * China's economy remained mostly agrarian throughout this period though it experienced little industrialization.

=Religious=
 * Intellectuals like __Liang Qichao__ and __Kang Youwei__ reinterpreted Confucian thought so that it would justify the radical changes occuring within China's imperial leadership
 * Confucian lost much of its influence and value in the daily lives of the Chinese

=Social=
 * Confucianism lost social influence
 * People started becoming __indentured laborers__ who went to work for European or American imperial powers
 * The social order remained stratified and didn't change

=Intellectual=
 * Confucianism was reinterpreted and applied to different elements of the empire
 * China was at first seen as an intellectually endowed place to being called stupid by the Japanese who were looking to seperate themselves from other Asian races

=(Technology)=

=Near Geographic=
 * China lost Korea, Taiwan, the Pescadores Islands, and the Liaodong peninsula to Japan in the __Sino-Japanese war__ (1894-1895)