1. What accounts for the massive peasant rebellions of 19th century China? In many ways China was the victim of its own earlier success. Having a huge population boom with agriculture unable to keep up. Unemployment, misery, and starvation also. China's famed centralized and bureaucracy did not grow to keep pace with the growing population, so it could not handle important problems in a good way such as tax collection, flood control, social welfare, and public security. The Taiping Uprising, which set much of the country aflame between 1850 and 1864 found an inspiration in a unique form of Christianity. 2. How did Western pressures stimulate change in China during the 19th century? China was forced to continue to import opium. 2. China had to cede Hong Kong to Britain and open a number of other ports to European merchants.3. It had to set tariffs into China at the low rate of 5 percent. British, Americans, and other western merchants had found an enormous, gro...
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