East Asia

John K. Fairback and David Kang have argued that the theory of the tribute system can explain most of pre-modern East Asian history. However, there was an interesting period of pre-modern East Asian history that cannot be fully explained by the tribute system. This was the Imjin War of 1592-1598, also known as the greatest international conflict in pre-modern East Asia. If pre-modern East Asian countries were tributaries under the hegemon that is China, they would not rebel against their hegemon. As

The future of globalization in the East Asia Globalization has been one of the core factors contributing to the growth of the East Asia economy. This has been associated with the increasingly growth of globalization in all the aspects of life amongst the East Asian people. Additionally, globalization has led to a daily change in both the social, economic and political status of the East Asia. As such, East Asia has been known as one of the rapidly growing economies across the entire globe. More

During the late 18th century to the early 20th century, east Asia had been imperialized by western powers. Imperialism in east Asia during the period 1750-1945 was beneficial because of the economic growth, technological advancements, and political structure that progressed positively as a result of western imperialism. For example, Japan had been forcefully imperialized by the United States during the mid-19th century, however, the aftermath of this occasion was ultimately beneficial to the Japanese

Air Pollution in East Asia Globally, many countries are increasingly feeling the effects of environmental degradation. This has been occasioned by the increasingly evident effects of poor environmental conservation policy. There are currently taking the brunt of environmental degradation that has been occasioned by rapid the industrialization that has occurred both within and out of the country. “Air pollution has been at fault for a significant portion of the country’s environmental problems. Studies

values to a culture. Change has always been a part of the human race, people evolving to the future, the influence of others and hopes for change of the present state. In history culture have change so much into what they are to do. In the past East Asia have one of the most rapid changes to their society in late 19th and early 20th centuries. A change that brought the new and old together but also caused some tension. They have evolved so much, the country’s themselves, the people, culture, customs

Japanese Nationalism and its Impacts in East Asia Introduction Led by a new group of conservative leadership, Japan is undergoing a rise in nationalism fueled by complex mixture of causes spanning from internal politics, economy, perception of new threat from China, and external influence know in Japan as Gaiatsu. Meanwhile, East Asia is experiencing a dramatic shift in regional dominance from Japan to China. Due to the rapid growth in China's economy, East Asian nations, having depended on Japan

Bibliography: Education and Youth in East Asia Working Thesis Statement: The Eastern Asia education system is successful due to the pressures of students from adults to be successful, the competitiveness of the schools and colleges and the difficulty of the curriculum. Chan , Jeremy. “Education in East Asia by the Numbers .” British Council , British Council. In this report, Jeremy Chan gives us a glimpse of how the secondary schools in different countries of East Asia are doing. He includes graphs

twentieth century East Asia? In the early 20th century, East Asia went through a process of modernisation to cope with the challenges brought by the Western powers. This process of modernisation was characterised by numerous features, ranging from military, political, economic, industrial and technological reforms to changes in the legal, administration, diplomatic as well as education and women. There were long term socio-political and cultural impacts which shaped the modern East Asia in the early

The rapid growth and struggle between leading Western imperialist nations to secure areas of influence and colonies for their own individual power, prestige and economic supremacy, reached East Asia in the 19th century. Two East Asian countries, Japan and China, both confined and secluded themselves from the rest of the world for centuries. These Asian nations both faced similar challenges, opening their countries and borders to foreign trade and relations and accept or embrace modernization, forced

South-East Asia as of today, and we do not expect to leave any time soon in the near future. The reality is that South-East Asian countries are mainly “affected by domestic trafficking or trafficking from the neighboring countries” (UNODC, 2014). There is an approximate “12 to 27 million people enslaved and exploited by human trafficking”, which this crime network brings in approximately “$30 billion dollars annually” (Collins, 2014). It is detected that today we see that (1) South-East Asia is still