However, by the time of his graduation, Sun believed that whilst the Manchu dynasty still existed, China would remain corrupt and backwards. His experiences abroad shaped his political ideas as at the beginning of the 20th century, the West were advancing and modernising their countries quicker than Sun’s own country of China. He toured Europe and America in hope to raise funds for the “Save China League” and made attempts to start a revolution against the Qing for example, the unsuccessful uprising in Canton, 1895. Sun worked hard travelling around to different countries, gaining more foreign funds and support. Sun Yatsen influenced the Chinese with his Three Principles – Nationalism, Democracy and Socialism and later in 1905; he formed the United League which was a revolutionary
This party was led by SunYat-sen. In document three, “the three principles of the Guomindang” stating the points of how this nationalists party would run the country. The three principles stated “Nationalism: to get rid China of foreign influence, unite China and to regain its international respect, democracy: the people should be educated so that they could ultimately rule themselves democratically, and Social advance: this was essentially 'land reform,' the redistribution of land to the peasants and economic development.” At the same time the warlord era was happening affecting the Guomindang’s ruling of China. In 1921, the Guomindang allied with growing Chinese communist to defeat the warlords present in the country. In 1925, after Sun Yat-sen’s death, Chiang Kai-shek took over the nationalist and realized the communist were getting stronger.
Through his documentary of Gaozu, Sima Qian references to the cycle of dynasties where the downfall of one empire leads to the rise of another. Following the insatiable rise to power by the tyrant, Xiang Yu, the King of Han was looked upon to remove Xiang Yu from power and in a sense return the empire “to good faith”. In the reading, Gaozu consistently seems to define this return to good faith as a return to a king’s true duties rather than his materialistic desires. For example, when Gaozu first gains rule over the Qin territory, he declares that the “officials and people remain undisturbed as before” and that he has “come only to save [them] from further harm, not to exploit or tyrannize over [them]” (Watson, 62). Gaozu implies that, unlike the arrogant and selfish rule of Xiang Yu, he is concerned not about usurping territory and power, but about sustaining the prosperity of his subjects.
This development was concerned with essential social and monetary changes and picked up in ubiquity under two presidents. Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson embraced two separate methodologies to dynamic change. Furthermore every one could sway congress to pass enactment in keeping with his adaptation of the dynamic dream. These two individuals, despite the fact that they had distinctive standards as a main priority, had one objective: to roll out improvements to the country for the better of the individuals and the nation. Embarking to achieve this objective, Roosevelt came to be a president of the normal man while Wilson turned into the "better" dynamic president.
In order to retain complete control over Mesopotamia the king decided that a universal law was needed. Legalism is the alternative philosophy to Confucianism rooted on the ideas of Han Fei, a Chinese man who lived during the Zhou dynasty around 280 to 233 B.C.E. Han Fei. As a young man, he was raised on the ideas of Confucianism but later formed opposing ideas primarily pertaining to human nature and government. During this time period, Chinese states were at war for control over the Zhou Dynasty, this led to Han Fei raising questions whether or not complying with Confucian ideals that state proper behavior could create a stable and peaceful society (Han, 1939).
A unified, powerful state was created in India by the British vanquishing kingdoms of the India and placing the same general system of laws amongst the Hindu and the Muslim peoples. The perspectives of the Indian peoples became more worldly and educated. Another example of a postive change in perspective that resulted from imperialism is Japan. Prior to 1867, Japan was humiliated by America’s intrusion. The radical samuri reacted to the invasion with violence until the samuri created a patriotic coalition that restored the emporer’s power with minimal bloodshed.
The Han emperor initially settled for the Vietnam’s ruler’s admission of his vassal status and periodic payments of tribute. But later on, they thought it was best to conquer the feisty Vietnamese outright and to govern them directly using Chinese officials. This is what led to the influences of China into Vietnam as their conflict began. The Vietnamese decided to co-operate with heir northern neighbors so that they could provide a great deal of knowledge for them. 5) Funan collapsed slowly during the 6th century C.E.
Roosevelt was the first president to introduce progressive ways of thinking and although each president’s ideas were similar in ways such as trust busting and conservation measures, his ideas were the framework for the U.S. William Howard Taft was the presidential candidate hand picked by Roosevelt. Although his ideas were similar enough for Roosevelt to believe he would carry on his progressive ideas, Taft had his own policies during the time of his presidency. Taft was big into raising tariffs and fired Gifford Pinchot as the Head of U.S. Forests Service as appointed by Roosevelt. While Taft, like the others, claimed to be progressive and shared the same trust busting agenda, he strayed farthest from the progressive ideas. Woodrow Wilson was a
Qin Shihuang unified all of China and established the Qin Dynasty. Qin Shihuang who became the first emperor of China believed that building walls was the best way to defend his country from foreign invaders. He found that earlier walls had been disconnected and in 215 B.C. he ordered 2,000,000 people to help build walls and all of these people who got ordered were prisoners of war, and people who were found guilty of crimes and the majority of them were soldiers in the army. During the building of the Great Wall it took many lives and a heavy amount of money and materials.
How successful was the Nationalist Party (GMD) in solving China’s domestic problems 1925-37? In 1928, after the defeat of the Warlords the Guomindang announced that they were the new legitimate government of China. Chiang the leader of the GMD, started to solve domestic problems by trying to get resolve the main issues: removing foreign influence, gaining central control, improving the economy and increasing people’s welfare. He introduced a series of reforms based on accomplishing ‘the three principles of the people.’ As well as creating the ‘New Life Movement’ in 1934 which was aimed at improving the living conditions of the Chinese people. However, Chiang and the GMD failed to gain population which was due to the lack of help and improvement towards the living standards of the millions of peasants in China, showing the GMD was only representative of minority groups and never fully solved all domestic problems in the country.