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The Self-Strengthening Movement was a political movement within the Qing Dynasty government of late 19th century China, which advocated the adoption of Western military technology in service of the defense of a traditional Confucian Chinese state.
References
- Wm. Theodore de Bary and Wing-sit Chan, Sources of Chinese Tradition, vol 2, Columbia University Press (1964), 45.
