This group’s aim was to spread anti-Asian propaganda and influence legislation restricting Asian immigration (Japans Pacific Onslaught). Along with racism towards immigration, Japan felt as if though they were treated inferior to the United States during the Russo-Japanese War. Japan had defeated the Russian Fleet at the Battle of Tsushima. It was the first naval defeat by an Asian power of a Western power in that period. (Vat) After that, Japan continued its naval expansion after World War I.
After losing the civil war to Communist Chinese and fleeing to Taiwan in 1949, the nationalist Kuomintang (Also called the KMT) leaders of the Republic of China regarded the Communist Chinese government as illegitimate, claiming the mainland as rightfully their own. (Steinfield) Beijing, in turn, regards Taiwan as a renegade province, and has tried repeatedly to persuade the island to negotiate a return to the idea(Taiwan). The KMT returned to power in 2008 after being in opposition for eight years. During this time President Chen Shui-bian and his Democratic Progressive Party had engaged in policy that widely departed from the KMT, invigorating efforts to seek Taiwan's sovereignty. Current President Ma Ying-jeou takes a decidedly more conciliatory approach; shortly after taking office he declared a "diplomatic truce" with China.
The One-China Principle Since 1949, China and Taiwan have had a rocky relationship, which is mostly caused by the issues regarding Taiwan’s independence and the One-China Principle. One-China is the idea that there is only one China, not “two Chinas” or one “China and one Taiwan”. This issue started in the 1900s, when Taiwan was Japanese territory. However, when a group of Chinese nationalists fled to Taiwan to escape the Communists, everything started to change. The antagonism between China and Taiwan was brought on by many factors, such as the Kuomintang’s rule of Taiwan, the 1992 consensus, and the differing opinions between the Taiwanese and Chinese leaders.
China was defect by England and France. Lots of inequality treaties were signed, and lot of silvers and land had been taken by those countries. Through these two battles, China found that she was hanged behind in terms of technology and military. In 1850, the Taipiang Rebellion broke out. Since the result of the two Opium Wars, china knew how important the western technologies were.
The Russo-Japanese war was declared on the 8th of February 1904 in the method of a formal letter from Japan, and continued until the 5th of September 1905, with Russia’s defeat. The war grew out of the conflicting interests between the rival imperialist ambitions of Imperial Russia and Japan, in both Manchuria, China and Korea. Prior to the Russo-Japanese war, an internal battle between China itself and foreign domination was being fought. The economic exploitation of the Chinese by overseas governments occurred rapidly, each nation aiming to increase their ‘sphere of influence’. Throughout the 1800’s, China faced internal strain and international turmoil.
Then it will flow towards the historical background of the protests against the Japanese in 2005. These examinations will lead to the correlation between the anti-Japanese protests of spring 2005 and the May 4th Movement, along with other major historical rebellions and revolutions. It is clearly apparent that there are strong correlations between the two major events that have taken place in the major cities, as well as the countryside of China. First, the assessment of the May 4th Movement must start by examining its roots within World War I, and the causes that brought about these protests and uprisings of the Chinese youth. With the fall of the Qing Empire in China came the fall of thousands of years of imperial rule within the conquered nation.
An example of difference is that during World War II the Japanese-Americans were detained in concentration camps throughout America as they entered war with Japan. The Two Opium Wars and the Treaty of Nanjing disrupted the populations around Hong Kong and Guangdong. The Treaty of Nanjing forced China to pay for financial protection to Western imperialist powers. The Chinese government levied high tax on peasants, in which many peasants lost their land. Those peasants had easy access to ships to go to the United States and other places.
In 1895, The Qing’s defeat in the Sino-Japanese War resulted in the Treaty of Shimonoseki, which by the terms of that Taiwan was ceded to the Japanese (Encyclopedia of Taiwan). Since then, Taiwan was ruled and colonized by the Japanese Empire for the next fifty years until Japan lost in World War II in 1945 and unconditionally surrendered Taiwan to the Republic of China government. During this fifty-year of colonization, Japan had made a great impact on Taiwan’s history and Taiwan had changed a lot in many aspects. This paper will explore how Japanese Colonial Era influenced Taiwan’s culture in terms of language, people’s life style, transportation, education, religion, population, etc. During Japanese Colonial Era, the highest executive official in Taiwan was the Governor-General.
The political role of the Aizu clan as the Kyoto Protector(Shugoshoku) before and during the Hamaguri gate incident in 1864 The decade before the Meiji Restoration was turbulent and influenced by many different events, that had take place and also affected the further social and mainly political development of Japan. With the arrival of Commodore Matthew Perry’s black ship in 1853, Japan´s self-imposed isolation broke down (ANDRESSEN 2002, p.75). The Tokugawa Shogunate (bakufu) was unable to deal with the foreign interference effectively, which concluded in unequal treaties with unilaterally set tariffs. The Americans were allowed to access harbours for trade and they were regarded with preferential treatment. These unequal treaties were decided and embedded in 1854 in the convention of Kanagawa, signed by Perry and Abe Masahiro the chief senior councillor of the Shogunate’s government, who acted against the Emperor Komei ‘s will, who was against the opening (KEENE 2004, p 11).
It supports its claims using legal terms, geographical considerations, and historical ties with the islands. China further argues that Japan’s longstanding claim on the islands is based on the developments of the Sino-Japanese War, which was fought between 1894 and 1895, whereby the country allegedly seized the islands from China through illegal means. China further argues that Japan’s claim to the islands was further reinforced when Washington placed them under its trusteeship after Japan occupied the islands after the war. In contrast, Japan’s claim on the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands is anchored on the argument that it surveyed