Zuo Zongtang

Where they went

2 related events

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   1865Founding of the Jiangnan Arsenalrelated figure

   In 1865 Zeng Guofan and Li Hongzhang founded the Jiangnan Arsenal in Shanghai, a modern arms works that built guns, cannon and steamships, and translated Western books on science and technology.

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   1876 – 1878Zuo Zongtang’s Reconquest of Xinjiangcommander

   In 1876–1878 a Qing army led by Zuo Zongtang destroyed Yakub Beg’s state and reconquered Xinjiang. The Ili region, occupied by Russia, was mostly returned by the Treaty of Saint Petersburg in 1881.

People who appear alongside

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  Zeng Guofan1811 – 1872

  Han Chinese official who raised the Xiang Army to crush the Taiping and launched the Self-Strengthening Movement

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  Li Hongzhang1823 – 1901

  Qing viceroy who steered policy toward Korea after 1882 and signed the Tianjin Convention and the Treaty of Shimonoseki with Itō Hirobumi

Themes this person appears in

• The Last Half-Century of the Qing1861 – 1901

  From the Self-Strengthening Movement to the Boxer Protocol — forty years in which a Qing China trying to learn Western technology lost to France and Japan, was carved up by the powers and saddled with indemnities it could not pay