Name: Bobby Montgomery
Location: Lubbock, Texas, United States

I am attending Lubbock Christian University and am a senior working towards my Bachelor of Science Interdisciplinary studies degree in Secondary education with an emphasis on Middle School Social Studies Compisition.

Sunday, September 24, 2006

Asian History class notes to 9/06/06

Bourgeoisie - Middle class
Proletariat - Working class
Lumpin Proletariat - homeless people or the margins of society. Can include the criminals

Marx thinks it is alienation because workers do not own their own tools and have no means of production.

Capitalism is about making money.

Marx sees the working classes who are powerless and alienated from the system who make less and less.
Marx saw the expansion of misery, so in the future. Its like a ticking bomb and people would rebel in a social revolution.

Marx predicted that socialism was a moment of passage and eventually each worker would eventually produce what they need and you would eventually see the withering of the state and eventually have an Utopian society.

Wade Giles – Mao tse tung
Pinyin – Mao Zedong -- Pinyin is closer to being phonetically correct.

PRC – peoples republic of china

Imperialism – expansion, bringing civilization to the backward peoples, artificial domination by force for economic exploitation.

Nationalism – Pride in ones nation

In the 1960’s it was a big decade for nationalism

Imperialism from the 3rd world perspective is viewed as an evil thing

1820’s the British developed a trading network in China and the particularly traded in Opium

The Emperor of the last Chinese dynasty was of Manchurian decent and therefore was part of the Manchu dynasty and it was the Qing Dynasty and they were deeply opposed to the British export of Opium.

Hong Kong was Britain’s largest trade city in China

Spheres of Influence

Interior of China was still feudal

Bourgeoisie – middle class
Gentry – landlords in the interior of the country
Peasants – most are renters from the Gentry
Empress and her court was in Peeking

Boxers – nationalists – Chinese for Chinese and did not like the Westerners in China
The Boxers killed all of the Westerners that they could kill. The U.S. contributed to the putting down of the Boxers.

John Hay – “Open Door” policy about China and it said the US favored free and independent China with free and open markets for trade.

Mandarins-

By 1900 we got an even weaker central government in China.

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