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This chapter explores Japan's modernization efforts and the discontent in Tokugawa Japan, as well as the colonization of Southeast Asia by European powers. It also discusses the impact of imperialism on new economic patterns, cultural changes, and the emergence of new political tensions.
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Discontent in Tokugawa Japan • Tokugawa shoguns 1600 • Isolation • Daimyo financial problems • Merchants and politics • Peasants and taxes
Opening Up Japan • The Chinese example (1830s and 1840s) • Opium Wars • External Pressure and Internal Revolt • Matthew Perry and the Commodore 1853 • Treaty of Kanagawa • extraterritoriality • Return of the emperor
Meiji Restoration • Study abroad
Reforms Under the Meiji • Culture of adaptation • Government • Meiji constitution 1889 • Diet • German model • The last samurai • Economic Reforms • Industrialization • Zaibatsu
Social Change • Classes • Schools • Women status • Amazing Success • Homogeneous society • No longer a victim
Growing Military Strength • Japan Gains Power • Sino-Japanese War • Taiwan • Russo-Japanese War • Korea and Manchuria • Treaty of Portsmouth • Korea
Competition for Korea • Russia, China, and Japan • Protectorate • Annexed by 1910 • Japan Rules Korea • Resentment • Nationalist movement
Europeans Colonize Southeast Asia • Dutch, British, and French colonized much of Southeast Asia • Dutch East Indian Company- • British- • French-
Siam Survives • King Mongkut studied • Modernized • Buffer zone • France and England • independence
Imperial Power in the Pacific • American, French, and British looked for bases in the Pacific. • U.S. sphere of influence on Samoa • Hawaii • economic imperialism led to annexation in 1898.
The United States and the Philippines • 1500s Spanish control • Catholic resistance • Spanish American War 1898 • Filipino declared independence • Emilio Aguinaldo
New Economic Patterns • Industrialization • Disruption of tradition • Money Economy • Plantation system • Taxes • End of barter • Disruption of families
Economic Dependency • India textiles • Dependency on business cycle • Modernization • Technology • Business systems • railroads
Cultural Impact • Westernization • Civilize the uncivilized • Assimilation • Some resistance in remote parts of Africa, Asia, and Middle East • Schools and Hospitals • Missionaries • Religion • Africa
Old and New Ways • Pressure to westernize forced colonized people to reevaluate their traditions. • Sati, foot binding • Impact on Western Culture • Diet • Art and clothing
New Political Tensions • Nationalist movements in Africa and Asia to end imperialist rule. • Competition among western nations • France and Germany • World wars