Second Sino-Japanese War

The second paper, by Harold John Cook (Cook 2004), states that the scientific revolution was built not by a few geniuses thinking in their rooms, but from the collective efforts of countless people, and argues for a geographical de-centering of the concept of scientific revolution. To argue for his theses, Cook documents the case of Willem ten Rhijne. Willem van Rhijne went to Japan, by the means of the East India Company, because the government of Japan wanted to enrich their knowledge about…

of Japanese history is Japan said that the sex slaves known as comfort women were prostitutes and did the things of their own free will.(Wingfield-Hayes). Those forced labour workers even came out and said they were slaves, but Japan accused them of lying. China and Korea have not been happy with all these changes. Japan has many excuses for leaving these parts of history out of Japanese…

The Battle of Myitkyina During World War II, a major battle took place between the Japanese and American forces which would come to be known as the Battle of Myitkyina. This battle lasted from March 15, 1944 to August 3, 1944 and took place mainly on the Ava Bridge located in the Northern Burma Region. The Battle of Myitkyina resulted in the Myitkyina Airfield being seized which was the last remaining stronghold controlled by the Japanese forces. This battle would prove to be a decisive…

The nineteenth century is marked as a time of universal imperialism and a rise in Asian power. The outbreak and causes of the Second World War are quite numerous and are all different based on the many opinions of historians and their own understanding of the war in general. There are many leading factors to the war such as the rise of Italian Fascism, Japanese invasion and aggression towards China in the 1930s, and, primarily, the political takeover of Germany by Hitler with the establishment…

The invasion of Shanghai lead to the Nanjing Massacre, which was also known as Nanking Massacre, and began in the end of 1937. This massacre involved the Chinese and the Japanese. Japanese forces killed around 300,000 Chinese people. The Japanese cruelty was incomparable, There were numerous ways that the Japanese took advantage of the Nanjing citizens. One example is how a large number of girls and women were raped, which lead to another name for the Nanjing Massacre, “Rape of Nanjing”.…

is forced due to the “barbarism” action from Britain, France and many other countries, which recalls from the first Opium War, the event that aroused the industrialization in China, and later on the second Opium war… Due to the pressures from enemies,…

During the 18th century, Britain was trying to deal with China through diplomacy and economic reason in a way to make the Canton Trade system fair for both sides. Trade between the British and the Chinese was severely lopsided in China 's favour during the end of the 18th century. The reasons for this trade imbalance in China 's favour were mostly due to a difference in worldviews between Britain and China. Britain sought trade and another strong alliance in the pacific; and China believed it…

they were conquered subjects of “foreign” Manchus. Ending Manchu rule became the first priority of the new Chinese nationalism.” Both Ah-Q and the Chinese people entered into the rebellion without much forethought or planning. This lack of a cohesive war strategy eventually shifted the rebels…

followed by the loss in the Sino-Japanese War shook all of China. The people were confused with the results and management of these events and wanted to know what would happen next. China’s search for security and superiority led it to study the very same people who humiliated and defeated them, all for the hope of never losing to anyone again. The nature of how Western and Japanese Imperialism affected China happened after China was defeated by both the Westerners and Japanese. The loss…

of Nanjing was depicted as: a battle, a massacre, rape and an invasion. Through research, the answer that has arose is that it should be depicted as a massacre, it’s school appropriate and follows the facts. “Over a period of six weeks, Imperial Japanese Army forces brutally murdered hundreds of thousands of people–including both soldiers and civilians–in the Chinese city of Nanjing” (history.com) The battle of Nanjing is the literal meaning of the word massacre. (mas·sa·cre-ˈmasəkər /noun an…