The 1898 "Scramble for Concessions" & the Road to the Boxer Rebellion

KEYWORDS

“Barbarian”/yi/夷
Canton System
Cixi
Commodore Perry
Extraterritoriality
First Sino-Japanese War
Gunboat Diplomacy
Hong Xiuquan
Kanji/Hanja
Lin Zexu
Meiji Restoration
New Imperialism
Opium Wars
Orientalism
Russo-Japanese War
Scramble for Concessions
Secret Societies
Self-Strengthening Movement
Taiping Rebellion
“Ti-Yong”
Treaty of Aigun
Treaty of Nanjing (Nanking)
Treaty of Shimonoseki
Treaty of Tianjin
Treaty Ports/Treaty Port System
Unequal Treaties
Yan Fu
Zeng Guofan
Zongli Yamen

TIMELINES

Periods

1644-1911 Qing Dynasty

Events

1690s-c.1800 Qing Eurasian campaigns
1726 first Qing edict banning opium (est. 200 chests of opium imported into China annually (see 1820))
1780-1831 Population of England doubles
c.1800 Estimated 1,500 county-level officials oversee 300,000,000 subjects
1793 Macartney Embassy to the Qing
1820 est. 10,000 chests of opium imported annually (see 1726)
1839-1842 First Opium War
1842 Treaty of Nanjing (Nanking)
1850-1864 Taiping Rebellion
1856-1860 Second Opium War
1857-8 Britain dissolves East India Company, takes direct control of South Asia (British Raj lasts until 1947)
1858 Treaty of Tianjin
1860 Amur annexation by Russia
1861 American Civil War begins
1861 British support Qing against Taiping
1861-1895 Self-Strengthening Movement
1864 Qing suppresses Taiping rebellion
1871 Russian occupies Ili in northwest
1876 Japan-Korea Treaty (Treaty of Ganghwa [Kanghwa])
1894-5 First Sino-Japanese War
1895 Treaty of Shimonoseki
1897 Korean king Gojong renamed Emperor
1904-5 Russo-Japanese War

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