What Were the Internal and External Pressures That Bore on the Qing

question 67

Essay

What were the internal and external pressures that bore on the Qing rulers as China began to experience closer contact with the West? How effective were their short-term and long-term responses, and why?

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Definitions:

Compound Propositions

Statements formed by combining two or more propositions with logical connectives, such as "and," "or," "if...then."

Categorical Propositions

Statements in logic that relate two categories or classes of things in an affirmative or negative manner.

Disjunctive

Pertaining to a logical relation that holds between two statements if at least one of them is true, most commonly represented by the "or" connective.

Hypothetical

Pertaining to a supposition or proposed explanation made on the basis of limited evidence as a starting point for further investigation or as a suggested point of argument.