More than one hundred years ago, imperial Chinese leaders tried to industrialize their nation, much as China''s leaders are attempting today. Self-strengthening projects in industry and the military were implemented to increase China''s wealth and power and to protect the country from further colonization by the Western powers of the nineteenth centu
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