Unit 12: Paper 3 — History of Asia and Oceania (HL)
Topic 12.3: Challenges to imperial rule in China (1736–1911) Questions
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Who were the two scholar-reformers most closely associated with drafting the Hundred Days' Reform of 1898?
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Which Qing official was sent to Canton in 1839 to suppress the opium trade and ordered the destruction of over 20,000 chests of confiscated opium?
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What territorial change did China agree to under the Treaty of Nanjing (1842), which ended the First Opium War?
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What event in 1900 followed the Boxers' attacks on foreign legations in Beijing?
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What was the main diplomatic clash associated with the 1793 Macartney Mission to Qianlong's court?
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What was the main outcome of the Treaty of Shimonoseki (1895)?
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In which year did Qianlong become Emperor of the Qing dynasty?
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From which year did the Canton System restrict all Western maritime trade to a single Chinese port?
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The White Lotus Rebellion (1796–1804) broke out mainly across the border region of which provinces?
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What incident in 1856 gave Britain, later joined by France, a pretext to begin the Second Opium War?
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Who was the corrupt favourite official who dominated Qianlong's government from the 1770s and was forced to commit suicide in 1799?
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What triggered the outbreak of the Xinhai Revolution in October 1911?
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To what extent do you agree that empowering regional armies such as Zeng Guofan's Xiang Army was a price worth paying to defeat the Taiping Rebellion?
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Evaluate the claim that the Unequal Treaties damaged China's sovereignty far more than they damaged China's economy.
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To what extent do you agree with the claim that the First Opium War (1839-42) was fundamentally a war about free trade rather than about protecting the opium trade?
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Discuss the view that the failure of the 1793 Macartney Mission was primarily due to incompatible Qing and British worldviews, rather than avoidable diplomatic mistakes.
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Evaluate the claim that population growth, rather than government corruption, was the more fundamental cause of unrest in Qing China in the late eighteenth century.
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Evaluate the claim that the Taiping Rebellion (1850-64) was a greater threat to Qing rule than the Opium Wars (1839-60).
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Hong Xiuquan, founder of the Taiping movement, began recruiting followers after a series of visions that convinced him of which belief?
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Which slogan best summarised the guiding philosophy of the Self-Strengthening Movement?
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