Zìqiáng Yùndòng jiàn le gōngchǎng hé jiànduì, kěshì Jiǎwǔ Zhànzhēng yí bài, sānshí duō nián de nǔlì jiù luòkōng le.
The Self-Strengthening Movement built factories and a navy, but the defeat in the Sino-Japanese War of 1894 brought thirty years of effort to nothing.
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Another name for 洋务运动. Mainland textbooks use that name, 'the foreign affairs movement', while Taiwan's textbooks and Western historians call it the self-strengthening movement, after the officials' own slogan 自强 'to make oneself strong'.
