Chapter 24 Quiz

The Challenge of Modernity: East Asia, 1750–1910
. Efforts by British envoys to establish a British diplomatic mission in Qing China met with complete failure _________.

. By the end of the eighteenth century, the illegal trade in _________, constituted a very profitable import commodity in China, especially around the area of Guangzhou (Canton).

. Beginning in the fall of 1839, the hostilities between China and Great Britain exposed the growing gap between the military capabilities of industrializing Western nations and those like China, whose armed forces _________.

. The Treaty of _________, which put an end to the first of the Opium Wars, marked the first of the century's "unequal treaties" that would be imposed throughout east Asia by European powers in order to open Chinese ports to foreign trade.

. The British imposed the policy of _________, or immunity of a country's nationals from the laws of their host country, on the newly open ports on the Chinese mainland.

. Another policy imposed by the British was that of _________, the loss by a country of its right to set its own tariffs.

. In later treaties signed by China with France and the United States, an important addition was the most-favored nation clause, which stated that:

. The movement to bring about the ________(taiping tianguo) on earth became known as the Taiping Rebellion and was headed by the former Confucian follower Hong Xiuquan.

. As a result of the Second Opium War, Qing China was forced to abide by all but one of the following:

. While Western powers wished for Qing China to become a more stable trade and diplomatic partner, the Chinese were primarily concerned with _________.

. In order to stem the tide of Western encroachment and influence, a growing number of Chinese officials advocated a policy of _________, whose two most prominent advocates were Li Hongzhang and Zeng Guofan.

. After the forced suicide of Taiping leader Hong Xiuquan and the end of his movement in 1864, Chinese leaders began to move toward a reform strategy of what a later slogan called:

. By the fall of 1894, a full-scale war over the fate of Korea and northeast Asia, called the _________War, was under way.

. After the war, the winning Japanese side forced China into a series of humiliating provisions including all but one of the following:

. The severity of peace provisions after 1895 signaled to the Western powers in East Asia that China was now weak enough to have massive economic and territorial demands forced on it and led to a _________in which not just Japan, but also France, Great Britain, Russia, and Germany all made known their own territorial demands on China.

. In 1899, at the behest of United States Secretary of State John Hay, European powers were persuaded to refrain from securing exclusive concessions and, instead, to maintain a(n) _________policy for all.

. In the aftermath of losing the war, a group of young Chinese officials pushed for a series of widespread reforms aimed at completely revamping China's government and many of its leading institutions in what became known as the _________.

. The Boxer Rebellion came about as a result of the anti-Qing and anti-foreign plots of a group known as the _________, also known as the "Boxers" on account of their ritual exercises.

. As a result of the Empress Dowager having openly lent her support to the Boxers movement through secret negotiations and having consequently declared war on all the foreign powers in China, _________and a multi-national relief force led by the Germans and British and largely manned by the Japanese was quickly assembled which also included units from all countries with interests in China. __________ __________

. The treaty ending the Boxer Rebellion saw Qing power in China totally defeated and forced to accept the most severe "unequal treaty" to date, and included all but one of the following:

. Which of the following factors did not shape Japan's pursuit of an overseas empire?

. _________was the term used by the Japanese to refer to the American fleets arriving on Japanese waters in 1853 and 1854.

. The Treaty of _________between Commodore Matthew C. Perry of the United States and the Tokugawa shogunate in 1854 was Japan's first with an outside power and ushered the nation into the "treaty port" era..

. A backlash against the foreign presence in Japan, resulting from the "treaty port" era of exposure to Western powers, led to the creation of an anti-foreigner movement aimed at driving out the Tokugawa and _________.

. The Restoration War pitted the Tokugawa government against a movement who's slogan was Sonno joi, or

. After the defeat of the Tokugawa, the new regime moved to the Tokugawa capital of _________and renamed it Tokyo.

. New Emperor Mutsuhito's Japan sought to make good on its promise and took on the name of Meiji, meaning _________, and launched a series of progressive reforms aimed at strengthening imperial rule, as exemplified by the issuing of the Charter Oath of 1868.

. Among Mutsuhito's reforms were all but one of the following:

. The novel _________, written by Cao Xueqin, is considered to be the greatest literary masterpiece of the Qing Era and is such a hallmark of Chinese vernacular literature that there is an entire field of "red studies" or "redology" devoted entirely to the examination of the work.

. Which of the following was not a Meiji regime economic reform?

. By the end of the nineteenth century, Japan's economy had developed a number of successful zaibatsu or _________in order to control or monopolize an industry.

. Ito Hirobumi's constitution drew inspiration from all of the countries EXCEPT

. Much of Ito's Constitution was aimed at preserving the traditions of Japan's Confucian society, chief among them the concept of kokutai, or _________, reflecting Japan's unique unbroken line of emperors and their familial and spiritual bond and the Japanese people.

. Two major political parties rose to prominence in Japan by the turn of the turn of the twentieth century, the Kenseito, or Liberal, Party (later re-established as the Minseito), and the more powerful Seiyukai, or _________.

. What traditional Japanese art form remained popular until the development of newspaper photography?

. As part of the program to curb practices in Japan that were believed to offend foreign sensibilities, all but one of the following socio-cultural changes were ;initiated by the government:

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Painting shows Chinese and Japanese troops attacking each other using with weapons.


What was the origin of the Sino-Japanese War (1894-95)?

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A map of China shows the treaty ports and the foreign spheres of influence in the country between 1842 and 1907. The British sphere of influence was in most parts of south central and southeastern China. The French sphere of influence was in south central China. The German sphere of influence was in eastern China. The Japanese sphere of influence was in parts of southeastern China and Taiwan. The Russian sphere of influence was in northern China, and includes Manchuria and Mongolia. Taiwan was ceded to Japan in 1895. Korea was a Japanese protectorate in 1905. Hong Kong was a British territory opened in 1842, and Macao was a Portuguese territory opened in 1887. The treaty ports opened with different foreign powers, and the date of opening the port are as follows. Britain: The ports in the British sphere of influence from west to east are as Tengchong in 1897, Chongqing in 1890, Wanxian in 1902, Yichang in 1876, Nanning in 1897, Wuzhou in 1897, Beihai in 1876, Haikou in 1858, Hankou in 1858, Jiujiang in 1858, Sanshui in 1897, Gunagzhou in 1842, Wuhu in 1870, Fuzhou in 1842, Shantou in 1858, Amoy in 1842, Zhenjiang in 1858, Shanghai in 1842, Ningbo in 1842, and Wenzhou in 1858. The Britain ports in eastern Chinese coast were Tianjin opened in 1860, Niuzhuang opened in 1858, Yantai opened in 1858. France: Simao in 1895, Mengzi in 1886, Longzhou in 1886, and Zhangjiang in southern China, and Nanjing in 1864 in east central China. Germany: Lushun in 1898 and Qingdao in 1898 in eastern China. Japan: Shashi in 1895, Changsha in 1903, Suzhou in 1895, and Hangzhou in 1895 in southeastern China. United States: Dandong in 1903, in the Chinese-Korean border. In an inset map eastern Asia is boxed.


The first treaty ports, as shown on the map above, were established after China's loss in the ______.

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Painting depicts the railroads in Japan with people gathered around a train and a train traveling on a train track by the mountains.


Railroads, like the one below, were part of the significant social, political, and economic changes in Japan during the ___________ era.

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