Second Sino-Japanese War

As a young girl she wanted to learn to shoot and after much persistence her father agreed. She took this teaching to heart during the Boshin War as she not only helped the other women in the castle heal wounded solders, but she also participated in night raids and battled on the front lines. She held fast and strong as she tried to keep her family safe. When she converted and became engaged…

state. From the onset of the Meiji restoration it was known that in order to compete with the other imperial nations and to conquer territories it was imperative to develop Japanese militarism. “We must exercise the strictest economy so as to provide funds for the building of a navy and the fortification of an army.” The Japanese governing system spent a large amount of money on the development of their military which reflected their efforts to establish their empire. Between the years of 1880…

compare to China and Japan. (p.15) Second, the U.S. disappointed with the deterioration situation in Korea, such as corrupt and incompetent bureaucrats, and even believed Koreans could not govern themselves. The U.S. hoped that Japan would remove corruption and guarantee order in Korea. (p. 15) Also, the U.S. wanted to pursue its security interest in East Asia and Korea was one of the means of…

Forbidden City (Appendix: fig 4). Against all odds, he united China for the first time after one hundred years of chaos and humiliation and built the foundation for a modern China fighting off the two antagonizing giants of the USSR and USA during the Cold War. He put an end to China’s “century of humiliation” and because of him, many Chinese people have stood up in the world. However, many of his opponents look at him as a demon and a creature that only destroys lives, dreams, and hope and…

brutal conflict with the USSR. Less than a year later, derived from the failure of the Bay of Pigs Invasion, The United States was faced with the Cuban Missile Crisis.3 The Cuban missile crisis is arguably the most dangerous confrontation of the Cold War and is the closest the U.S. came to having a full fledged nuclear battle.3 In October of 1962 an agreement was made by Fidel Castro of Cuba and Nikita Khrushchev of the USSR. It placed nuclear missiles in Cuba as a defense tactic to prevent a…

among competitors and shows how much love Ip Man has for his enemy. Usually fighters hate their opponent, but Ip man hardly sees the fighter as an opponent at all. Ip Man certainly does not hate his competition and hardly sees him as a threat. The second realization is found when Ip Man is confronted by the town and asked if he had defeated his competitor easily. Ip Man could have easily bolstered his reputation and his ego by admitting his victory, but instead decides to avoid the question…

The Yellow River estuary has rich biological resources. It represents the spawning area for many fish species of the Bohai Sea and Yellow Sea, and an important fishing ground in the northern China Sea (Shan et al., 2013). Laizhou Bay is an estuary of the Yellow River, and has high primary productivity. It represents an essential nursing and feeding area for many species (2et al., 2013). There is low biomass in the river, but the presence of few and unique indigenous fish make the conservation of…

June 4, 1989 is a day remembered in numerous parts around the world as a dark and somber tragedy that disregarded the most basic values of freedom and democracy. Yet this event is often viewed in the narrow lens as a failure of an attempt to democratize. Through this lens, the historical contexts and following consequences are severely oversimplified, which results in an inadequate and biased perspective of the event itself. The China today is still shaped and molded by the memories of the…

Moreover, the widowed daughter-in-law, Noriko, represented the war widows in the immediate postwar era. As her husband passed away, Noriko’s life was quite empty. Probably having no family members from her parents’ home to rely on, she could only relieve her loneliness by taking care of her parents-in-law. That’s probably why she considered herself as “selfish”. Moreover, the family relationships shown in this film still preserved strong Japanese features. For example, the family greeted each…

For the next century, Britain and China fought the first Opium War over the trade. China was pushed into signing the Treaty of Nanjing, which granted Britain rights to trade exclusively and expand with China. Britain claimed Hong Kong in 1843 as its own. The Second Opium War erupted in 1856. Britain wanted more trading concessions than for colonial establishment. In the early 1800s the White Lotus Rebellions occurred…