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China up to 1911 - Coggle Diagram
China up to 1911
Political tension
China had been forced to sign unequal treaties that gave the imperialist powers extraordinary controls over Chinese trade and territory
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The Taiping Rebellion, which raged from 1850 until 1864 spread throughout southern China, was only finally put down by the deployment of regional armies and with foreign assistance
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The role played by regional armies signaled the beginning of the shift or power away from central government.
After the fall of the Manchu in 1911, control became regionalized in a period known as the warlord of the 1920s.
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Social unrest
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The population grew by 8% after 1850, but the land cultivated only increased by 1 per cent
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Economic problem
Government
There was widespread corruption among local and provincial government officials which meant that a significant amount of tax revenues did not reach the central government
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Peasants
Peasant poverty led many to migrate to the cities, but there was high urban unemployment due to improved industrial technology and cheap Western imports
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Peasants bore the paid tax burden for the state, which included before 1991, the great Manchu imperial court.