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A 3 page paper comparing these two empires. Qing China and the British empire each were able to unite vast land masses and distinctly different peoples. They each took very different approaches, however, some of which are discussed here. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Qing China and the British empire each were able to unite vast land masses and distinctly different peoples. They each took very different approaches, however, some of
which are discussed here. Chinas Qing Dynasty China has been known for centuries as the nation of mystery. The Qing dynasty had
united most of the lands of what we now refer to as China by the end of the 17th century (Heuschert, 1998). Strict internal controls and a strong military
presence contributed to a century of relative peace and prosperity, but the population has been estimated to have doubled during the 18th century. Commercial development did not keep pace,
and the peoples living standard declined. The military fell into decline as well and became only an economic drain that could provide little if any benefit. Chien Lungs
reign was marked by internal corruption at levels previously unknown, and the cumulative financial result was that China needed to accept some of the European overtures to trade.
China could have had a solid trade relationship with Europe for two centuries before, but the Chinese believed their ways to be superior to all
others, and they resisted allowing the Europeans to unduly influence their traditional ways and religion (Hostetler, 2000). European missionaries had been granted admittance in a previous century (Kwong, 1997),
but the government eventually ejected those missionaries and embarked on a campaign to restore the Confucianism by which both the government and the people operated.
The view of the Chinese has been and remains that the rest of the world is much less developed. They define development much differently than other cultures
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