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The China model made China into the "new mover and shaker," (143) with its fast economical development admired by other developing nations. It quickly gave China a new economic power that Ch ...

I was surprised by the descriptions of workers' life at Yue Yuen, the conditions seemed so much better than I have imagined. At Yue Yuen where the workers created their own community (it is like a &qu ...

I think in order to creat the 'new' China, Mao needed the peasants, as it says in the Reader that "the Communists had failed in the cities, Mao needed to reinterpret Marxist theory in such a way ...

In the seventeenth century, the West looked at China and its culture as sophisticated and attractive. Yet into the nineteenth century China was no longer the powerful, developing nation, and British w ...

The division between the Manchus and the Chinese (like the Hans) only brought humiliation and "anti-Manchu national feeling." The privileges given to Manchus led the Chinese to view with ant ...

I agree with those who do not believe that the West opened China to join the foreign trade. Long before the western countries visited China, the country "had always traded with the outside world& ...

I agree with what has been said, the Emperor is no longer the "sacred and inviolable" figure, although he remains as the symbol of national unity. More rights are given to the people as the ...

For Kasayama Yoshikichi, or "I Gil", the war was difinitely not what he would have chosen to participate in the first place, if only he was given a freedom to decide. Although he made the de ...

I agree that the isolation was somewhat neccessary, since Japan was approaching the United States as a possible threat to the country and the people, and it was to protect the majority of the American ...

I agree that to give an event a name is to give it an identity and recognize its importance. Similar to Ting Chun, I learned of 1923 Great Kantō earthquake as "Kanto Massacre" with Kore ...

Yes, I agree that there were some negatives sides to the extreme loyalty and patriotism. I wanted to add that the "news of the atrocities was kept out of the papers in Japan" (122?229?) from ...

I agree that Japanese government used schools and the nation's education system to inculcate national pride in the Japanese people. The government did use draconian methods, restricting people from de ...

I agree to Farrah's point on Japan "fighting fire with fire". It is ironic that "the government decided to "open" Korea just as the Americans had "opened" Japan.&quo ...

One question I would like to ask is: How was Japan able to become a militarily superior country, especially in such a short time after going through all the power struggle and the political changes? D ...