Attack from west: import science, technology: cannons, guns.,
Righteous rebellion-The Boxers wanted to invest and improve technology and science. As the following timeline shows some of the most important events during the rebellion.
1400 chinese high technology in marine time.
1545 reversee engineering from the Portuguese
19th century: production iron, steel, weapons, becoming vonurable to Europeans
1. Self-strenghtening: by improving science and technology
2. Referom imputist 1898 highest point. Emperor pushes reform. Nationalism vs communist
3. Rebels lead by example 1890’s rebel examples propels by Japan. Japan has restoration and has become regional power beat the Russia and china
History can change history by finding new data to change history and revise, new people investigating,
1. data
2. people
3. new questions: about women, poor, schools, education other part of society and interactions between them to get a new perspective
1960-1970’s new data , new people, and new questions.
Anti-Manchu to anti-Christianity, anti-western: interviews from boxers in the 1950s
Historian became less sensitive about history.