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Quiz for Working with Evidence: Changing China

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Source 19.1: Toward a Constitutional Monarchy: Kang Youwei, An Appeal to Emperor Guangxu, 1898

Source 19.2: Education and Examination: Anonymous: Editorial on China’s Examination System, 1898; Emperor Guangxu, Edict on Education, 1898

Source 19.3: Gender, Reform, and Revolution: Qiu Jin, Address to Two Hundred Million Countrywomen, 1904

Source 19.4: Prescriptions for a Revolutionary China: Sun Yat-Sen, The Three People’s Principles and the Future of the Chinese People, 1906

Choose the best answer to each question.

Question

1. Why did Kang Youwei in Memorial to Emperor Guangxu (Source 19.1) urge the emperor “to take the Meiji Reform of Japan as the model of our reform”?

Japan’s religion and customs were more similar to China’s than to other regions, where reform had been implemented.

Kang Youwei judged that reforms had failed in Russia.

The republican form of government adopted by Japan was a model that Kang Youwei hoped would also be adopted in China.

Kang Youwei hoped that if Japan was used as a model, then the Japanese government could be persuaded to send technical assistance and financial aid.

1. Why did Kang Youwei in Memorial to Emperor Guangxu (Source 19.1) urge the emperor “to take the Meiji Reform of Japan as the model of our reform”?

Question

2. According to Edict on Education (Source 19.2), which topic does Emperor Guangxu decree should be taught in reformed Chinese schools?

Wen-chang

Poetry

Fine script

Ancient history

2. According to Edict on Education (Source 19.2), which topic does Emperor Guangxu decree should be taught in reformed Chinese schools?

Question

3. Which author wrote the following statement about women? “You must know that when a country is near destruction, women cannot rely on the men anymore because they aren’t even able to protect themselves.”

Kang Youwei

Emperor Guangxu

Qiu Jin

Sun Yat-sen

Question

4. Which author advocated the overthrow of the monarchical autocracy in China rather than reform from within?

Kang Youwei

Emperor Guangxu

Qiu Jin

Sun Yat-sen

4. Which author advocated the overthrow of the monarchical autocracy in China rather than reform from within?

Question

5. Upon what would Kang Youwei in Memorial to Emperor Guangxu (Source 19.1) and Sun Yat-sen in The Three People’s Principles and the Future of the Chinese People (Source 19.4) agree?

That the imperial system in China had to be overthrown for reform to take place

That the current bureaucracy was in need of significant reform

That the best reform models for China were those of Western republics

That the civil service exams were useful in their present form

5. Upon what would Kang Youwei in Memorial to Emperor Guangxu (Source 19.1) and Sun Yat-sen in The Three People’s Principles and the Future of the Chinese People (Source 19.4) agree?