BlockB+Self-Strengthening2

=**__Self-Strengthening__** =

**Who** The Ching government (regional Governors-General-the primary practitioners of self-strengthening) Through learning Western technology, industry, and practices, the self-Strengthening movement was trying to standardize the Western power, although it failed. China needed to adopt Western ideologies China 1860’s to 1890’s The relative stability and size of the imperial government. While China was unified under a strong set of institutions for a long time, Japan was a decentralized and feudal state. Government officials were spread out which made it hard to make broad changes.
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