COLONIALISM AND IMPERIALISM
IMPERIALISM IN ASIA
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Question
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Japan and China colonized other parts of Asia in order to spread the influence of their customs and beliefs.
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Japan and China developed highly industrialized economies that urbanized their cultures and produced social inequality.
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Japan and China welcomed Christian missionaries into their countries, hoping to westernize the religions of their countries.
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Japan and China wanted to isolate themselves from the world in order to preserve their traditional cultures.
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Detailed explanation-1: -This essay, therefore, will argue that the main differences in Japan and China’s response to the West in the 19th century were that Japan yielded to Western pressure to open to trade while China refused to, and that Japan successfully modernized while China failed to.
Detailed explanation-2: -Japan began the 19th century as it had existed for centuries; A Tokugawa Shogun ruled through a central bureaucracy tied by feudal alliances to local daimyos and samurai. Taxes were based on agriculture and the samurai were sustained by stipends paid to them by the shogunate.
Detailed explanation-3: -How were Japan and China economically different from each other by the end of the 19th century? Japan was a successfully industrialized country with a sizable army and a strong economy, while China’s economy remained weak and vulnerable to the interferences of imperial countries.