Nationalism and Revolution in China and India

For Monday's and Wednesday's class discussions, please read Chapter 16, and prepare, in writing, answers to the following questions (1-5 for China on Monday and 6-9 for India on Wednesday):

1. What were the goals of the Chinese "self-strengthening movement," and why did they ultimately fail in their efforts to reform China?
2. Sun Yat-sen is hailed as China's "man of ideas." What was Sun Yat-sen's vision of China's future? Why was he unable to bring it about?
3. What was the May Fourth Movement, and what were its goals? What did it achieve?
4. Lu Xun was the most prominent among the May Fourth Movement authors. How did his character Ah Q personify what he considered wrong with China?
5. What were the achievements and the failures of the Nanjing decade? How did the Chinese Communist Party interact with the Guomindang, and how and why did it change its strategy after 1927? 
   
6. How does the map showing the growth of India's railway network illustrate the text's assertions that these lines were built to support "a drainage economy" as well as to reinforce British military interests in India? 
7. What were the economic changes that took place under the British raj, and how were these both beneficial and detrimental to India's future?
8. How did Gandhi brig together the division between the gradual liberal reformer and the radical activist factions of the Indian National Congress How did his political and social goals draw upon India's philosophical and religious traditions? How did his tactics of passive resistance and mass protest change the nationalist movement? What was his broader impact on other Asian nationalist movements?
9. Did Gandhi's efforts actually defeat the British and his political opponents or was it something else that helped to drive out the British and create an independent India? If Gandhi's actions were responsible, specifically how did his concept of nonviolence achieve this? 

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