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Megan Yang History-Dr. K When Hong Xiuquan converted to Christianity in 1843 and began preaching from village to village in southern China, little did he know that he had started a religious movement that, by 1850, would have more than thirty-thousand members.1 These members, who called themselves the “Society of God Worshippers,” consisted primarily of poor and disenfranchised Chinese peasants who suffered greatly from the oppression of the Manchu dynasty.2 It was their discontent with the Manchu

the people of those societies. The Taiping Rebellion and the French Revolution successfully shaped their societies by means of political and social reforms. They were both influenced to later achieve their unique successes because of a multitude of pushing factors, such as the existing social and political conditions of China and France. Natural disasters, breaking away from tradition, and China 's loss in the Opium War contributed to the ideology of the Taiping Rebellion; to restore China to its

Jonah Noel December 3, 2016 The “opening” of Japan and China; A love story Throughout history, dozens of countries have adopted isolationist policies on countless different occasions. For example, in the United States in the 1930’s, many Americans felt that amidst the Great Depression, the government should focus its efforts on solving problems at home before intervening in international affairs. Furthermore, today, totalitarian dictators often isolate their countries in order to consolidate their

citizens, who demanded an ousting of ‘foreign’ rule. After the failure of the Opium War, Chinese were angry with their government—angry with the spreading famine, angry with high taxes, angry with English economic rule. This lead to the massively bloody Taiping Rebellion of 1850 to 1864. Between 20 million and 30 million died from battle, disease, and starvation. This rebellion greatly weakened Qing rule, but the Qing were able to hold onto their rule. Similarly, in Haiti black slaves and gens de couleur

Pavin Kaler 211347747 April 16th, 2015 Professor Joe Kispal-Kovacs Transportations in Political Structures in China and Japan during the Modern Era Comparative Essay 1 While Japan and China both had to go through transformations in political structures in order for them to experience revolutions as a reaction to colonization attempts during the Modern Era, both nations also had different outcomes

China’s Self-Strengthening Movement (1860 - 1894) is often regarded as a failure. To what extent do you agree with this assessment? ‘Why are the Western nations small and yet strong? What are we large and yet weak? We must search for the means to become their equal ... At first they may take the foreigners as their teachers and models; then they may come to the same level and be their equals; finally they may move ahead and surpass them. Herein lies the way to self-strengthening.’1 Following

With all the discord going on around the word today, it is quite easy for us to forget that at the end of the day, we are very much similar to each other. When we hear of the Chinese Americans and Filipino Americans living in America today, not often do we see a connection between the two except for the fact that they come from Asia or have descendants from Asia. If we dive deeper into history, we will see that when the Chinese and the Filipinos first came to America, they had very similar purposes

The several movies portrayed in this course were very helpful in understanding Asian history. In my opinion, these movies were helpful in the way that they introduced the fundamental basic history about how the wars shaped the outcome of Korea and China. These movies were helpful because they provided an overall consideration of the different perspectives of the wars. In the movie The Warlords, we gained knowledge about the Manchu government’s perspective and in the movie The Front Line, we gained

During the 19th century, after a long period of isolation, both China and Japan underwent social and political changes to open up to foreign trade and interaction with European forces. Both countries eventually signed treaties with Western provinces such as the United States and Great Britain in order to establish a trade relationship to induce and increase commercial trade networks. Even though culture and civilization in China and Japan were fairly similar, both countries had distinct reactions

The Taiping Rebellion occurred in China during the 19th century, specifically during the time period of 1850-1864. It is cited as being the largest and most successful rebellion that occurred during the 19th century. The two forces that were a part of this rebellion were the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, also known as the Hakka’s, and the Qing dynasty, also known as the Manchus. The main cause of the rebellion was that Hong Xiuquan, a Hakka and the main leader of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, received