Imperialism:
China and Japan

Imperialism in China
Traditional China
	-exported goods, literature and philosophy
	-Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) dominates 
       Vietnam and Korea
	-Qing (Manchu) Dynasty (1644-1911)
	-Opium Wars, Taiping Rebellion
	-by 1900, European spheres of influence over China
	
Imperialism in China, cont
Boxer Rebellion (1898-1901)
1900 John Hayes Open Door Policy
Imperial government falls 1911
Great Britain and France gain China�s southeast Asian colonies

Japan
Traditional Japan
	-feudalism
	-1543 Portuguese first European contact
	-1549 Jesuits arrive

Japan, cont
Tokugawa Shogunate (1600-1868)
	-strong central government bakufu 
	-legal code, highway system, network of fortifications
	-population increase, prosperity
	-isolationism

Japan, cont
US forces Japan out of isolation
	1853 Perry visits
Meiji Restoration (1868)
By 1900, Japan modernizes

Japanese Imperialism
Ryukyu Islands 1874 (Okinawa)
Sino-Japanese War (1894-95)
Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905)
		*Trans-Siberian Railroad
		*Treaty of Portsmouth
		*RESULT: Sets off anti-colonial
		  movements in Africa


Persian and Ottoman Empires
Islamic traditions
By 1900, both Empires in decline
Competition between Russia and Britain
Persia attempts to reform
Independence movements in Ottoman Empire
Turkification of the Ottoman Empire

US in Hawaii & Philippines
US annexes Hawaii (1898)
Spanish American War (1898)
	-US gets Philippines and Guam
Filipino resistance
Government reforms, economic dominance

Critics of Imperialism
Joseph Conrad (1902) Heart of Darkness
George Orwell and other writers
Americans over guilt from Philippines
Economic critics
	-John Hobson's underconsumption theory
	-Vladimir Lenin (1916) writes Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism