Madison Rambles #13: Questions About China
Hello, everyone!
Here's a post shortly after my last post because I was late on that post. I think this is the first time this has ever happened.
And we're talking about China yet again! We're also talking about Japan, a country that I want to go to someday. コロナウイルスだから、私に日本に行かせてくれません。悲しいですね... (Because of the Coronavirus, [the government] won't let me go to Japan. Sad, isn't it?)
So let's answer the questions!
This is Chapter 19, by the way.
1. What accounts for the massive peasant rebellions of 19th century China?
When the population of China grows too much for China to handle, not everyone can get fed. The Chinese government cannot handle the large amount of people, so rebellions happen.
Also, China could not cannot communicate with all of the different parts of the country, so corruption was bound to happen. Peasants started to be treated poorly, and taxpayers were harassed. I wouldn't be surprised if parts of China were basically anarchy, like the Wild West in the United States.
From this information, I can see why China later added a one-child policy. After doing some research, the one-child policy is gone, but has been replaced by the two-child policy. So China's population is still an issue to this day.
Back to the peasant rebellions, they weakened China to the point where Britain took advantage of them. Britain was able to take advantage of them by selling them opium. That caused the country to be even weaker.
By the way, the Taiping Uprising was somewhat of a feminist movement. It wanted, for example, for women's feet to be unbound. I thank them for their efforts on trying to get women out of that painful practice.
2. How did Western pressures stimulate change in China during the 19th century?
This answer must be 200 words, but this little list answers the question quite well:
1. Britain gets opium.
2. Britain sells opium to every man, woman, and child in China.
3. Profit
4. China has trouble recovering from this event.
5. Communism
I can explain. Britain saw that China had a massive population, and they knew that opium is a very addictive substance. They get the opium from India and export it to China, finally having something that China wants. Due to this addiction, Britain profits off of China, but China starts failing, especially since they didn't go through an Industrial Revolution to support their rapidly rising population.
Eventually, this led to a government reform. It was the rise of the Communist Party.
By the way, we still profit off of China in unethical ways. Instead of only selling goods to China to unite our cultures, we also rely on China to build goods from sweatshops. I love how the world is becoming more connected, but there are respectful and disrespectful ways to communicate with the people from another culture. Taking advantage of people is not respectful.
11. How did Japan’s relationship to the larger world change during its modernization process?
Japan used to shut itself from the world by only communicating with the Dutch. Even people that were stranded were taken in as criminals. After much outrage, they decided to communicate with other countries. And boy, did they communicate with other countries!
They started their own Industrial Revolution and became their own dominant country. They built railroads, got their literacy rates up, and started conquering other countries, most notably Korea. They were quickly catching up to the British Empire in terms of power, even becoming a threat to America during World War II.
This rise in power led to them beating Russia, making those that have been oppressed by Russia thank Japan. People even went to Japan to learn.
But, um... Japan was treating the countries they conquered terribly. For example, like the British and English, Japan wanted to teach the countries they conquered Japanese. Korea was a major example of this. Korean was purposely excluded from the curriculum. And that was one of the more tame forms of oppression Japan did.
Despite this, Japan became powerful, and they have the third largest economy today. Their prominence is so noticeable, I started learning and stuck to Japanese because I was exposed to Japanese culture a lot as a kid. I remember having a Game Boy Advanced SP when I was 5-6, and when I was around six years old, I would wake up at 6 AM and watch Pokemon in my mom's bed. Now, I'm a huge Nintendo fan that can sing the Japanese Hamtaro theme song from memory. とっとこはしるよハム太郎...
I finished this quite late, at around 10:40 PM. Now, I can finally rest... until the next assignment comes out!
Next time, I will talk about World War I and II. I have four more chapters left until the book is finished.
Until next time!
Here's a post shortly after my last post because I was late on that post. I think this is the first time this has ever happened.
And we're talking about China yet again! We're also talking about Japan, a country that I want to go to someday. コロナウイルスだから、私に日本に行かせてくれません。悲しいですね... (Because of the Coronavirus, [the government] won't let me go to Japan. Sad, isn't it?)
So let's answer the questions!
This is Chapter 19, by the way.
1. What accounts for the massive peasant rebellions of 19th century China?
When the population of China grows too much for China to handle, not everyone can get fed. The Chinese government cannot handle the large amount of people, so rebellions happen.
Also, China could not cannot communicate with all of the different parts of the country, so corruption was bound to happen. Peasants started to be treated poorly, and taxpayers were harassed. I wouldn't be surprised if parts of China were basically anarchy, like the Wild West in the United States.
From this information, I can see why China later added a one-child policy. After doing some research, the one-child policy is gone, but has been replaced by the two-child policy. So China's population is still an issue to this day.
Back to the peasant rebellions, they weakened China to the point where Britain took advantage of them. Britain was able to take advantage of them by selling them opium. That caused the country to be even weaker.
By the way, the Taiping Uprising was somewhat of a feminist movement. It wanted, for example, for women's feet to be unbound. I thank them for their efforts on trying to get women out of that painful practice.
2. How did Western pressures stimulate change in China during the 19th century?
This answer must be 200 words, but this little list answers the question quite well:
1. Britain gets opium.
2. Britain sells opium to every man, woman, and child in China.
3. Profit
4. China has trouble recovering from this event.
5. Communism
I can explain. Britain saw that China had a massive population, and they knew that opium is a very addictive substance. They get the opium from India and export it to China, finally having something that China wants. Due to this addiction, Britain profits off of China, but China starts failing, especially since they didn't go through an Industrial Revolution to support their rapidly rising population.
Eventually, this led to a government reform. It was the rise of the Communist Party.
By the way, we still profit off of China in unethical ways. Instead of only selling goods to China to unite our cultures, we also rely on China to build goods from sweatshops. I love how the world is becoming more connected, but there are respectful and disrespectful ways to communicate with the people from another culture. Taking advantage of people is not respectful.
11. How did Japan’s relationship to the larger world change during its modernization process?
Japan used to shut itself from the world by only communicating with the Dutch. Even people that were stranded were taken in as criminals. After much outrage, they decided to communicate with other countries. And boy, did they communicate with other countries!
They started their own Industrial Revolution and became their own dominant country. They built railroads, got their literacy rates up, and started conquering other countries, most notably Korea. They were quickly catching up to the British Empire in terms of power, even becoming a threat to America during World War II.
This rise in power led to them beating Russia, making those that have been oppressed by Russia thank Japan. People even went to Japan to learn.
But, um... Japan was treating the countries they conquered terribly. For example, like the British and English, Japan wanted to teach the countries they conquered Japanese. Korea was a major example of this. Korean was purposely excluded from the curriculum. And that was one of the more tame forms of oppression Japan did.
Despite this, Japan became powerful, and they have the third largest economy today. Their prominence is so noticeable, I started learning and stuck to Japanese because I was exposed to Japanese culture a lot as a kid. I remember having a Game Boy Advanced SP when I was 5-6, and when I was around six years old, I would wake up at 6 AM and watch Pokemon in my mom's bed. Now, I'm a huge Nintendo fan that can sing the Japanese Hamtaro theme song from memory. とっとこはしるよハム太郎...
I finished this quite late, at around 10:40 PM. Now, I can finally rest... until the next assignment comes out!
Next time, I will talk about World War I and II. I have four more chapters left until the book is finished.
Until next time!
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