The Name
The concern with "self-strengthening" 自强 of China was expressed by Feng Guifen (1809-1874) in a series of essays presented by him to Zeng Guofan in 1861. Feng obtained expertise in warfare commanding a volunteering corpus in the anti-Taiping campaign. In 1860 he moved to Shanghai, where he was much impressed by the Western military technique.
In his diaries, Zeng mentioned his self-strengthening rhetoric directed at technological modernization.
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