Adler College Gurabo, PR U. S. History Essay I Angel R. Pérez 11-1 Professor Ruiz August 27, 2013 The opening to China 1839 – 1844 The opening to China symbolized the U. S.’s attempts to expand westward. The opening itself was very dissimilar to the Japanese, since the Chinese were willing to do so. But it wasn’t only the Americans, the British and other European powers sought China for products because of their great deal of products to choose from. The Chinese on the other hand, were getting less interested in western products as westerners to Chinese products. This disinterest led to a chain of events that led the U. S. to gaining power in China.
To what extent was the deterioration in Sino-Soviet relations in the years 1958-1969 due to personal rivalries? After the Communist revolution in China 1949, Sino-Soviet relations were thought, and feared, to be the start of a revolution that could threaten communism in China that could threaten communism in countries world wide. However, from the time of the Great Leap forward of 1958 to the Ussuri River dispute of 1969 these two once great allies had brought one another to the brink of nuclear war. The question is whether this was down to nothing more than the individual personalities of the heads of states, or was it more do do with the national rivalries that had been abundant even before the rise of communism in either country? In 1958 the Great Leap Forward was a Chinese policy designed to start an industrial revolution across China.
However, the author, Zho Dan, is of the upper class of China and as such, his testimony do not tell how lower classes felt. Yet, in a time when Asian steppe nomads were invading northern China, Zhi Dun could have easily targeted Buddhism as a means of foreign corruption, but he does not. Document 3 counters the scrutiny of anti-Buddhism with logic. However, since the author is anonymous, his bias in this document is difficult to pinpoint, yet his role as a scholar certainly dictates a slight upper class bias, as in document 2. Documents 4 and 6 all discourage the spread of Buddhism in first century C. E. China.
The arrival of Euorpean traders in the 1500's made the Chinese government nervous and as a result, isolated the people for fear of cultural changes. However, because of the high demand for goods, trade continued to take place illegally. When the dynasty collapsed and the Manchus took over, trade was controlled overseas. In the Qing Dynasty, trade made for a huge population growth in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Trade with America caused this growth through their introduction of new crops to China.
Borderland Nomads invaded and attacked China, with little resistance from the Chinese, because they did not have an organized military or a military leader. These attacks contributed too much of the chaos during these three hundred years. After the three hundred years the dynastic cycle resumed, this was on continuity of the classical era. The Han, Qin and Zhou dynasties were all examples of the dynastic cycle, dynasties rising and falling. Although during the classical era there was a small break in the dynastic cycle it came back with the rise of the Tang dynasty, which was the dynasty that came to power after the three hundred years of chaos.
Ming China and Japan 1450-1750 * Last native Chinese dynasty Foundations * After the failure of Japanese invasion revolts began against Yuan dynasty a.Quality of Mongol power was gone * Zhu Yuanzhuang declared Hongwu emporer * White washed Mongols out of China -Tried to remove all traces of Mongols FOREIGNERNS BEGAN TO WONDER… Organization -Political reforms a. there was a fear of conspiracy (against emperor=led to oppression) b. Mass faultfinders c. Rebuilt Nanjing (capitol in S China) -Economic reforms a. gave land to the peasant (they were free of feudal traditions) b. there was a surplus production (wealth of landlords increased while taxes decreased) Return of scholar gentry -civil service exam was revived
Greer Liguori October 13, 2014 In 1937, Japan invaded China and conquered large parts of China. They occupied this land until Japan was defeated during the Second World War in 1945. The Chinese Communist Party established the People’s Republic of China in 1949. Despite the fact that many did not favor communism in China, the party did unify the peasant class in multiple ways. Between circa 1925 and circa 1950, the relationship between the peasants and the Chinese Communist Party was that the party encouraged the state of the people, involved the peasants in nationalism, also encouraged anti-Japanese sentiment, and favored social
We occupied Japan until 1952, but maintained a presence even after we left. Japan was a success. In 1950, however, communist North Korea invaded South Korea, causing the Korean War to begin and US troops to be sent in through the UN. 55,000 United States troops were killed, and that most definitely is a failure on the part of containment. In China, the United States spent very large amounts of money supporting the nationals against communist leader Mao Zedong, an effort that failed.
Likewise, He Qianyuan, another court official, denotes the declining economy of the Ming through a report to the emperor on the possibility of repealing the ban on foreign trade. He Qianyuan mentions that the price of silk in China is worth two to three times as much in the Philippines and that many native products are highly desired by foreign merchants. Once again, Qianyuan wants to repeal this ban on foreign trade in hopes of improving the Ming economy and for China to become prosperous so that the common people will not rebel or become uneasy (document 7). Ye Chunji, a county official of Ming China, creates an order to limit wedding expenses paid in silver. As a result of the growing scarcity of silver in China, As a county official, Ye Chunji hopes that the people of China will live frugally and not extravagantly in an effort to help the declining economy by having people live frugally and to spend money on more necessary items than to live extravagantly and waste money (document 1).
– stop communism from spreading. 9. After the North Koreans pushed southwards towards the Pusan Perimeter, what changed the course of the war for them? A rapid U.N. counter-offensive then drove the North Koreans past the 38th Parallel and almost to the Yalu River, when the People's Republic of China (PRC) entered the war on the side of North Korea 10. How did US goals change following MacArthur’s Incheon Landing?