Impact Of Imperialism In China

Throughout most of China 's history, the country has remained rather isolated from from other nations and their influences. Although there are major instances in which outsiders were able to make significant impressions, such as the introduction of Buddhism, or the devastating opium wars. However, on a whole they were able to remain genuinely separated especially when compared to the development of other countries. In ancient China, this proved to be beneficial to their cultural development which is why they were able to become such an advanced and lasting ancient civilization. Without outside influences their culture was able to solidify, grow, and provide important advancements in ancient times, such as the first paper.

France gained control of Indochina by invading and taking over the regions. The United States became an imperial power by invading, annexing, buying, or building countries infrastructure. The United States annexed the Hawaiian Islands and Puerto Rico to gain their resources. They also built the Panama Canal and used it as a source of income for the US. Russia expanded into the Asia through Persia, the Caucasus regions, the nomads of Central Asia, and many areas of the Middle East.

The United States has inflicted imperialism on the island Hawaii on January 17, 1893. They did this by overthrowing the government which was a monarchy and its ruler was Queen Liliuokalani. Then by overthrowing the sugar planters who overthrew the Queen, President William Mckinley was able to obtaining the territory for the U.S after the Spanish-American war. The U.S wanted to obtain Hawaii because of its monopoly on Sugar and its Sugar exports to The United States. The United States wanted to obtain the territory also to get rid of taxes on them and the business, and wealthy people were losing their ability to manipulate the government and wanted it as a naval base like pearl harbor.

Back to the Song Dynasty, China was a dominant country in its per capita income and technology where four Great Inventions were invented at that time. However, Europe enjoyed a higher living standard and more advanced technology hundreds of years later. This increasing difference between Chinese and European economy is called the “Great Divergence”. In 1400, GDP per capita in England was 1090 international dollars which was slightly higher than that in China, 960 international dollars (England: Broadberry, Campbell, Klein, Overton and van Leeuwen 2011; China: Broadberry, Guan and Li 2013).

The barbarian force of the Mongols caused issues that were significant to China which made the most impact on the Chinese culture in a wall being built. This wall is known as the Great Wall of China. The wall contained a sense of nationalism to protect the nation and liberalism to keep people in and not letting Chinese civilians leave. Nationalism can best be described as the support and one's value of their own country is preserved. Liberalism is the act of liberal perspectives being perpetuated.

China’s Last Empire. The Great Qing. William T. Rowe. The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009. 360 pages including Emperors and Dynasties, Pronunciation Guide, Notes, Bibliography, Acknowledgements, Index, Maps and Figures.

By the middle of the 14th century, the Yuan dynasty, run by the Mongols was in decline. Like all Chinese dynasties, it was coming to an end and the evidence that the rulers had lost the Mandate of Heaven was everywhere. The government was corrupt, spent too much money on wars, and they could not collect enough taxes from the population to provide them with the services to keep them content. In addition, many Chinese leaders grew tired of being ruled by the foreign Mongols. They wanted a return to China run by Chinese.

Cultural Analysis of China The definition of culture is; the customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a racial, religious, or social group; the characteristic features of everyday existence (such as diversions or a way of life) shared by people in a place or time. Mainland China has a rich and prosperous culture which dates back more than 4,000 years, which is full of Chinese culture and history. China has a colorful history, which focuses on more traditional aspects like food, customs, and the life style of its people. The Chinese people have shared a common culture longer than any other group of people on earth.

Although the understanding of Japanese history, as Eiichiro Azuma observes, often remains confined to the boundary of its archipelago, the fact that Japan’s colonial history took place across geographical, cultural, and national lines demands more investigations of such history in a more fluid, transnational framework. Azuma’s and Mariko Tamanoi’s studies are products of this idea, i.e. Japanese colonialism as “borderless colonialism” (Azuma 1191). Despite their seemingly irrelevant subject matters, the two studies do share some common concerns about how the official ideology and theory differed from the reality understood in daily practice by its own “Japanese” settlers overseas, and about how the notion of nationalism and national identity

As briefly discussed in the introduction, the issue of the nation and nationalism should not be confined to hard politics. Indeed, recent scholarships have turned from the statist perspective to regional and even individual experience of the nation and nationalism, among other issues. More importantly, the cultural aspect of the individuals has drawn spotlight as well. Although political historians, such as Benedict Anderson, have pointed out the significance of cultural factors in the formation of the nation and the spread of nationalism, the lived experience of that culture by individuals rarely received attention among political scientists. Yet fields like history, anthropology, and literature, in recent decades, have begun to draw attention

In the Classical era, two very comparable empires carried out the cycle of rising and falling on the far western and eastern ends of Eurasia. While only Rome had to struggle to grow from a single city to an enormous empire, both Rome and Han China rose to power on the backs of their brutal armies. And, the fall of both empires negatively impacted the life of common people as well as the cultivation of culture across Eurasia. In the beginning of its reign, the Roman empire labored to grow from an impoverished city-state into a more expansive political force.

How did European imperialism fundamentally alter East and Southeast Asian civilizations? European imperialism fundamentally altered civilization in China in various ways. To start, European imperialism started when Qianlong became the ruler of China. During his rule, Qianlong began to fall under the influence of destruction elements at court. There were corrupt officials and higher taxes which led to the big fall out and the Europeans conquering.