Guided Reading 22-2
After the (1)________________ Rebellion, Empress Ci Xi embraced a number of reforms in education, administration, and the legal system. Elections for a national (2) ________________ were even held in 1910. The emerging elite were angry to discover that elected assemblies could not pass laws but could only give (3) ________________ to the ruler.
Sun Yat-sen developed a three-stage reform process that included (4) ________________ takeover, a transitional stage before democratic rule, and then finally a constitutional (5) ________________. In 1905, Sun united radical groups from across China in the (6) ________________. As the Qing dynasty collapsed in 1911, under General Yuan Shigai, the Chinese (7) ________________ took control of the country. With no new political or social order, the events of 1911 were less a revolution than a (8) ________________ of the old order. General Yuan dissolved a new parliament, the Nationalists launched a rebellion, and Sun Yat-sen fled to (9) ________________. At the death of General Yuan in 1916, China slipped into (10) ________________.
The coming of Westerners to China affected the Chinese economy by introducing modern (11) ________________ and (12) ________________, creating an (13) ________________ market, and integrating the Chinese market into the nineteenth-century world economy. In 1800, daily life for most Chinese was the same as it had been for (14) ________________. A visitor to China 125 years later would have seen many people in the cities who were (15) ________________ and wealthy, affected by the growing presence of Western culture. (16) ________________ began to introduce Western books, paintings, music, and ideas to China. Western literature and art became popular in China, especially among the (17) ________________.