Test 2 Flashcards
What was the island that Japan won control over after fighting with China for Korea?
It was taiwan
Which country is Asia’s first imperial power?
Japan was asia’s first imperial power
Which era that we studied in Japan was characterized by westernization, industrialization, and modernization?
This was the Meji restoration
What were the samurai roles in Japan during the Tokugawa Era?
During the Tokugawa shogunate, samurai increasingly became courtiers, bureaucrats, and administrators rather than warriors.
Which western power opened Japan and which opened China?
Britain opened up China through the opium wars. It was the Americans who opened up America through their ships
What was the impact of processions to Edo on the economy of Japan?
Japanese economic growth during the Edo period was Smithian and not Schumpeterian. … Japan carried out import substitution of cotton, sugar, raw silk and tea. These were domestically produced and exported to foreign countries during the Meiji period, thus contributing to Japan’s improved balance of trade.
Who was Hong Xiuquan? Why did people fight for him?
Peasant farmer’s son
● Had a vision of God and Jesus Christ → believed he needed to cleanse China and the Manchu dynasty
● Believed himself to be the younger brother of Jesus
● Thought he had been chosen by God to be the emperor of China
Contrast the transition of China’s society with the transition of Japan’s society as each of them were opened by “The West”.
Japan successfully modernized and became an industrialized power, while China failed to do so.
What were the reasons for the First Opium War?
An outflow of silver from the Chinese treasury threatened the Chinese economy
● 1836: Chinese government demanded the British stop importing opium, and the British refused
● 1839: China decides to cut off food and water supply to British ships, and Britain opens fire on Chinese war ships
How do China and Japan’s transitions look different?
China let other nations’ spheres of influence within China while Japan adapts to the Western ways in order to oppose the Western imperialism.
Why did Japan and China transition so differently?
China remained committed to traditional values, and lost numerous territorial conflicts, while Japan devoted everything to westernization.
To the Japanese it was clear that Western nations had amassed wealth and power for what three reasons? List them.
Economy, democracy, and the education system
How did the Chinese government encourage agriculture over manufacturing during their society’s transition?
Due to more frequent exchanges between China and other countries, foreign crops such as potatoes, corn, peanuts and sweet potatoes were introduced and planted. The greater varieties of cash crops were effectively incorporated into the rotational farming and inter-cropping regimes, further increasing food productivity
What new forms of technology and architecture Japan began to use during the Meiji Restoration?
The main impetus for introducing Western-style urban architecture was leftto private business interests that built Western-style business districts like the Nihonbashi financial section or the Marunouchi business center.
There were many tenements that were crammed with commoners who lost their jobs.
There were many references to glass windows and red bricks, because they were new additions.
Red brick roads began to spring up, and people began to use them.
The entirety of Japan was modernized, but many people did not like it because it was very expensive, but it became worth the price.
Glass windows came to exist, and balconies as well.
The city’s infrastructure improves with the introduction of paved streets, a telegraph, and eventually a telephone line.
