The Dark Age of China 1830s - 1905, China Lost Territories , Self-Respect and Dignity

In the years from 1830s to Mid 1940s China and the Chinese people suffered the worst outrage, insult and humiliation at the hands of Western imperialism and Japanese imperialism. It was a Dark Age when China was forced to cede large chunks of Chinese lands to the Western imperialists inclusive of England, France, Germany, Russia and Japan. China was reduced to a semi-colonial country where all the political and financial powers rest in the hands of the hordes of invading imperialists. All the major ports and cities were under imperialists control where they assume full control over customs, excise duties and taxes and thus depriving the Chinese of its revenues and impoverished China.

In the years from 1830s to mid 1940s China was weak because the Ching Dynasty and later the Kuomintang were corrupted to the core and were unable to stand up to foreign aggressions. Many European countries inclusive of England, Russia, France, Germany, Holland and Japan and US took undue advantage to invade China.

Each and every country that invaded China would after their victory in wars against China demanded from China to cede large chunks of territories to them . And on top of that they each forced China to to pay "indemnity " of several hundred million Chinese silver dollars. This indemnity money impoverished China for over a hundred years for China had to pay the extortion every year until the victory of Chairman Mao's Peoples' Republic of China in 1949 , when China stopped the payment.

In the years 1850s to 1860s there was a Chinese revolution - The Taiping Rebellion to get rid of the corrupted Ching Dynasty and to evict all foreigners from Chinese soil, The Taiping Revolution was led by a just as corrupted leader called Hong Siu Chuan.

The European powers , Japan and US saw no advantage in supporting a strong Chinese government where they would stand to lose all the advantages and benefits. Therefore they banded together to help the Ching Dynasty to destroy the Taiping Revolution.

With the corrupted Ching Dynasty back in control the Europeans and Japan were able to rob off big chunks of Chinese territories with impunity from 1850s to 1905. Russia occupied vast tracts of Chinese territories of a few million square miles from Lake Baikal to the Pacific coast including the Sakhalin Island. Russia also carved away large chunks of Chinese land from the western province of Sinkiang. England took away Hong Kong and many of the ports and cities inclusive of Shanghai, Tien-Ching, Ning-po and Amoy. Germany took control of the province of Shang-tung Peninsula and the Japanese took away Liu-Chiu Tao ( renamed by Japan as Okinawa ). In 1905 Japan also invaded Taiwan and some other smaller islands in the East China Sea.

All these stolen lands from China are still in foreign hands awaiting for the day of redemption when China is strong enough to claim back. The Chinese would never take an inch of foreign land but the recovery of all lost Chinese territories is a must.

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Monday, 25th September,2017