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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 [[Confucianism|Confucian]] Chinese state.
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==References==
*Wm. Theodore de Bary and Wing-sit Chan, ''Sources of Chinese Tradition'', vol 2, Columbia University Press (1964), 45.
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