FOCAL POINTS FOR READING VOHRA, CHAPTERS 4-6
1. 1898: Hundred Days Reforms: What did
the reformers propose to change and how? What brought the reform movement
to a disastrous end?
2. 1900: The Boxer Uprising: What triggered
the Boxer Uprising? What agenda did the Boxers have and how did it change?
What were the terms of the "Boxer Protocol," and how did they reflect the
desperation in China's semi-colonized state at the beginning of the 20th
century?
3. What sort of reforms did the Manchu
government acquiesce to and engage in after 1905?
4. What are the failures /shortcomings
of the 1911 Revolution?
5. What were the "Twenty-One Demands"
and how do they reflect the "weakness" of the Warlord system as a representation
of China's "nationalist" state?
6. The connection between "New Culture"
and the May 4th Movement
(know about the actual happenings of what Vohra called the "May Fourth
Incident."
7. The KMT's "Northern Expedition."
8. The landmarks in the intensifying crisis
of Japanese encroachment/invasion of China.
9. The history of the early CCP (party building; propaganda and involvement with the labor movement and the student movement; the "purge" of 1927; the Jiangxi Soviet and the disunity in the CCP; the Long March and the Yanan Experience.)