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Self-Strengthening Movement, the movement (1861–95) in which the Qing dynasty (1644–1911/12) of China introduced Western methods and technology in an attempt to renovate Chinese military, diplomatic, fiscal, and educational policy. Learn more about the Self-Strengthening Movement in this article.
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The Self-Strengthening Movement, also known as the Westernization or Western Affairs Movement (c. 1861 –1895), was a period of radical institutional reforms initiated in China during the late Qing dynasty following the military disasters of the Opium Wars.
The Self-Strengthening Movement was a 19th-century push to modernise China, particularly in the fields of industry and defence. Foreign imperialism in China, its defeat in the Second Opium War (1860), the humiliating Treaty of Tientsin and the Taiping Rebellion (1850-1864) all exposed the dynasty’s military and technological backwardness, ...
2020-04-15. The Westernization Movement, also called the Self-Strengthening Movement, was championed by some Qing government officials from the early 1860s to the middle 1890s. Its aim was to introduce Western technology and modern industrial equipment.
Whether or not the Self-strengthening Movement could ever have saved the Qing as an entity, the Qing’s inability to adapt and assimilate itself into a new world order was both a cause of the Dynasty’s demise and a result of its conservative mindset.
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China embarked on an effort to modernize, the Self-Strengthening Movement, following its defeat in the First (1839–1842) and Second (1856–1860) Opium Wars. [4] . The effort concentrated on providing the armed forces with modern weapons, rather than reforming governance or society.
The Tongzhi Restoration was a direct result of the Self-Strengthening Movement led by the statesmen Zeng Guofan (who became viceroy) and Li Hongzhang to revitalize government and improve cultural and economic conditions.
