Self+Strengthening+1+Block+C

Wang Tao : Scholar, radical, journalist (but was under the control of Britain) - idea: don't copy Western style, but adopt to the society
 * WHO:** Chinese and the Manchu / Wang Tao

- In the mid-nineteenth century
 * WHEN:** late 1870s to 1890s


 * WHERE**: In China

- Wang Tao - was a radical person - society should adapt western society but everything fails. - The reform actually weakens the society 1. Western Technology - learn there technology, language, and industry 2. Return to the Confucian ideal, being superior (chun tzu), and humane (jen)
 * WHAT:** Self Strengthening (1. Western Technology, 2. Confucianism)


 * WHY:** The defeat of China by British created humiliating treaties imposed on them by the western powers, which agitated the Chinese to create a reform, Self-Strengthening, to be as strong as the western forces.

2. Return to the Confucian ideal, being superior (chun tzu), and humane (jen)
 * HOW**: 1. Western Technology - learn there technology, language, and industry