Discuss the answer for the DBQ 1.5.

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• seasame seeds (people) are grinded by a grinder (the government) into seasame oil into a basket (foreign powers)

• the hard work of the people are used by the foreign powers through the government

• anti-Qing uprising

• strikes

financial crisis

• resistance to taxes and levies

• looting

• the Qing government has allocated the resources from the people to the foreign powers

• Reference : The people provide the material for the seasame oil to the government. The government give the seasame oil the foreign powers.

• Show : Qing govt offer things that foreign powers.

  
  

  
  

The government’s reform was futile.

Sesame oil could not be made without the burning of foreign powers.

High tax rates and levies ( resistance to taxes and levies )

Insufficient food supplies for daily ( looting grains)

                In source B , total cases of looting grain from 1902-1911 = 163, showing the shortage of food

                In source B, resistance to taxes and levies = 220 from 1902-1911, showing that people have insufficient money

        social unstability

In Source B, from 1902-1911, cases of destroying School = 54, cases of strikes =90 , cases of Opposition to reform =81

These show that there were different types of social event and social instability

Source A shows not economically modernised because the production was under foreign influence.

Source B :on culture aspect

OK1 small extent ( social aspect)

OK2 small extent ( diplomatic aspect)

Compare

economic (Source A)

• hard work of people taken advantage of by foreign powers

political (Source B)

• public discontent of the people shown in opposition to reform shows that the government policies does not represent the people

social (Own knowledge)

• unhealthy practices remained in China despite policies as the people did not embrace them

military (Own knowledge)

• Yuan Shikai created modernized army by using Western system, training and equipment

-Source A: economic aspect. Because the government have poor management on economic aspect and give money to foreign powers.

-Source B is social aspect. As there are famine problem. Which is not modernised also the uprising anti qing

Own knowledge, Political aspect. There are outline constitution in 1908 and freedom of speech in 1909.

Own knowledge, economic aspect. Industrialised china with establishment of Chinese enterprises.

To compare, although there are lots of reform, the root clause of controlling the country like citizens and rules are not effective. Thus, its small extent.

SourceA: the government provided the resources but eventually became the resources of foreign powers

In Source B, there were 72 cases of anti Christian activities showing that China is religiously not modernized

OK1: Unhealthy practice

-forbade unhealthy social conduct such as foot-binding, opium smoking

Showing that China was socially not modernized in 1900-1911

OK2: Popular education

-e.g. by 1900, the number of schools exceeded 24600 with 1.3million students in China

showing that China was educational modernized to some extent