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Title: East Asia in the Age of Imperialism


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East Asia in the Age of Imperialism
  • 1800-1914

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China
3
The Opium Wars
  • By 1820s, British were trading huge amounts of
    silver for Chinese tea, porcelain, and silk
  • British introduced opium to China as a silver
    substitute
  • China cracked down on this trade in 1839 leading
    to war with Britain
  • Treaty of Nanjing ended the war in 1842 and
    forced China to open more trade ports, pay for
    the war, cede Hong Kong to the British, etc.

4
China protests the carving up of its territory by
imperialist powers-French cartoon
5
Chinese
opium den
6
Chinese junksno match for
British warships
7
The British return Hong
Kong to China in 1997
8
The Chinese Republic
  • Chinas humiliation in the Taiping Rebellion,
    Sino-Japanese War, and Boxer Rebellion convinced
    many of the need for reform
  • Qings resistance to change caused many young
    Chinese to support the overthrow of the monarchy
  • Republic of China was established in 1912 ending
    2K years of dynastic rule

9
Sun Yat-Sen- First president of the Republic of
China
10
Japan
11
The Meiji Restoration
  • Many Japanese were upset with the Shoguns
    failure to resist Western pressure
  • Civil war broke out between the supporters of the
    emperor and supporters of the shogun
  • 700 years of shogun rule came to an end when the
    Tokugawa were defeated in 1868

12
Emperor Meiji (Mutsuhito)
13
Modernization
  • Feudal system was abolished
  • Army and navy were modernized
  • Program of industrialization began (zaibatsu)
  • Prime minister and parliament ran the country,
    emperor was a figurehead

14
Expansion
  • China ceded Taiwan and Korea to Japan following
    Sino-Japanese War (1894-95)
  • Russo-Japanese War (1904-05) was 1st time an
    Asian power defeated a European one

15
Big China is slain by the
little Japanese samurai
16
Japan K-Os Russia in the Russo-Japanese War
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