Author Question: Why was the Treaty of Tianjin considered humiliating for the Chinese? a. It allowed Japan to take ... (Read 35 times)

jessicacav · **on:** Sep 12, 2019

Question 1

In the late nineteenth century, the Qing lost control over its empire due to all of these events EXCEPT

a. Japan defeated China in a war over Korea in the 1890s.
b. the Russians transferred territories north of the Amur River in Siberia to China.
c. the Tibetans revived their local autonomy.
d. the British and the French removed Burma and Vietnam from their traditional relationship to the Manchu court.
e. the Chinese lost Taiwan to Japan.

Question 2

Why was the Treaty of Tianjin considered humiliating for the Chinese?

a. It allowed Japan to take over Korea.
b. It made the Chinese opium trade legal.
c. It closed all Chinese ports to foreign trade.
d. It gave the British the Liaodong Peninsula in 1875.
e. It deprived the Russians of any control in northern China.