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China’s Revolutionary Century

1842 - 1949

© Howard R. Spendelow

Georgetown Universityrevised 18 Feb 2010

Terms for China’s Revolutionary Century

copper coins

“string” of “cash”

”Nemesis” at Guangzhou

The Illustrated London News, 12 November 1842

Chinese “victory” at Sanyuanli ( 三元里 )

First Round of Treaty Ports

the Xianfeng 咸豐 Emperor (reg. 1850-1861)

Extent of the Taiping Movement

Upper North Dagu Fort, 21 Aug 1860

Belvedere of the “God of Literature” Pavilion, Summer Palace, October 1860

Second Round of Treaty Ports

Russian expansion, 1858-1860

Treaty Ports and Foreign Concessions

Hong Kong 香港 , 1856

Shanghai 上海 , 1846-1914

21st century Shanghai: Pudong seen from the old “Bund”

The Empress Dowager 慈禧太后 (1835-1908)908)

Zongli Yamen 總理衙門

Burlingame Mission, 1868

Chinese Educational Mission: “FOB” in San Francisco, 1872

After six years in Hartford CT, 1878

Trans-Siberian Railroad

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Pie, melon – whatever, it’s still getting carved up…

Treaty Ports and Foreign Concessions

Kang Youwei 康有爲

The Guangxu 光緒 Emperor (14 Aug 1871 – 14 Nov 1908)

Beijing’s “Legation Quarter” during the Boxer Period (1900)

The famous “Horse Marines” of the Marine Mounted Detachment assigned to the International Legation at Peking, China, in the 1930s. They posed before a large building on the Imperial Wall where heavy fighting by Marines had taken place during the 1900 Boxer Rebellion. Throughout the first three decades of the 20 th century, Marine duty in China was highly desirable. Even privates reportedly lived like “kings” in a very inexpensive and reception environment. (streamer = China Relief Expedition, 1900-1901)

The Empress Dowager 慈禧太后 , 1903

The Empress Dowager and Sarah Conger

Henry Puyi Aisin-Gioro

Yuan Shikai 袁世凱 , 1912

Sun Yat-sen

Chen Duxiu (1879-1942)

”New Youth” magazine

Lu Xun [Zhou Shuren] (1881-1936)

Hu Shi (1891-1962)

Li Dazhou

”Warlord” China – mid-1920s

Chiang Kai-shek 蔣介石 (1887-1975) at Whampoa 黃浦 , 1924

advertisement for Golden Dragon cigarettes, 1925

Whampoa Military Academy, c. 1925

“National Humiliation Illustrated (c.1931-1932)

Zhang Zuolin (1873-1928)

Chiang Kai-shek marries Soong May-ling (1 December 1927)

Charlie Soong (c. 1864-1918) as a student at Vanderbilt

the Soong Sisters (Ailing, Qingling, Meiling)

Canton, December 1927

CCP-controlled areas, early 1930s

Zhang Zuolin’s RR car (June 1928)

Zhang Xueliang (1901-2001)

Xi’an (Sian) Incident, December 1936

劇終(the end)

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Dong Fuxiang attacks at Dagu

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