Self-Strengthening Movement
{'<entity_0>': 'Self-Strengthening Movement', '<entity_1>': 'reform movement', '<entity_2>': '1861', '<entity_3>': '1895'}
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The <entity_0>, also known as the Westernization or Western Affairs Movement (c. <entity_2>–<entity_3>), was a period of institutional reforms initiated in China during the late Qing dynasty following the military disasters of the Opium Wars. In <entity_2>, Prince Gong declared that he had received Imperial approbation for the purchase of foreign weapons for self-strengthening, initiating the <entity_1>.
['reform movement']