During the Self-Strengthening Movement, what prevented the reformers from achieving their goal of self-sufficiency in military infrastructure?
a. Foreign advisers were easily bribed.
b. Qing generals refused to consider new military tactics.
c. Corruption and inefficiency of the imperial bureaucracy prevented success.
d. The Sino-Japanese War interrupted its implementation.
e. The notion of self-sufficiency went against Confucian ethics.
c
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Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)