Taiping Rebellion

before the 20th was not assessed. He argues that the 19th century was not a peaceful era but was in fact one of the worst in history. He noted examples such as “the Napoleonic wars, with four million deaths, one of the worst in history; the Taiping Rebellion in China, by far the worst civil war in history, with 20 million deaths; the worst war in American history, the Civil War”. I agree with him to the extent that I do believe that the 19th century included several acts that are overlooked by…

Along with tracing the origin and rise in popularity of one of the most well-known “Chinese” dishes in the United States, “The Search for General Tso” documents the struggles of Chinese-American restaurant workers and the circumstances that altered their approach to the restaurant business. By questioning people both in America and China, the documentary crew reveals the extent to which General Tso’s Chicken has become ubiquitous in the U.S. while it has remained relatively unheard of in its…

The argument of this essay poses the question: was the Qing dynasty to be considered Chinese? According to the “New Qing History” scholars argue that the Manchu rulers maintained their ethnic identities and thus the Manchu-centered Qing was fundamentally different from the proceeding Chinese dynasties. However, I support the argument that the Qing dynasty was a real Chinese dynasty through semantics alone despite their success through sinicization, if not the prime example of a Chinese dynasty.…

The Opium Wars were a series of wars that took place between 1839 and 1860 although the fighting was not continuous and had brief times of non-fighting. The First war started in 1839 after a realized trade deficit on Britain's side with a high demand for Chinese goods including tea and silk with almost no demand for western good from China mainly because China was a self-sufficient nation and the fact that foreign trade was so tightly restricted. After a series of requests and demands from both…

There were many benefits that came out of the Industrial Revolution. However, in the end, it resulted in more negative effects which outweighed the positive ones. The Industrial Revolution brought immediate negative effects including shifts of family life it and great damage towards the surrounding environment. Also, the Industrial Revolution had long term negative effects including the dangerous effects it had on the “new imperialism” many years later. When the Industrial Revolution got started…

also in parts of Asia took place. Colonists were brutalised way more than the laborers back in England, introduced to Christianity and also introduced to education which was at many times, available to only native elites. All this led to constant rebellions and in the end, the people that used to classify themselves by villages and families, began to recognize themselves as a larger tribe, a larger race and even as a nation, and part of a continent. This led Africa to experience its own kind of…

In the late Qing dynasty (1644-1911), many missionaries came to China with Western ideas following the invasion by Western powers such as British imperialists. Therefore, many Chinese students and intellectuals inevitably came into contact with Western techniques, religious ideas, and history. However, there always have been many differences between the original European ideas and the Chinese understanding of them. Under the hegemonic power of western civilization, Chinese scholar Kang Youwei…

Millions of people have migrated to the United States in search of a better life. Until the middle of the 19th century, most of them came from England, Ireland and Germany.23 The “melting pot” metaphor was used to describe the heterogeneous society of immigrants with different cultures becoming more homogeneous through blending together all the races.20 Chinese immigrants joined this mass migration to America in three waves, beginning in the 1840s and extending to the present era. During these…

Contemporary world History Christina Cagol EXAM 1 September 8, 2014 1. Pablo Picasso and George Braque founded cubism in the early 20th century in Paris. It was an artwork to be considered as the first radical approach in expressing visual reality. According to Cubist, any perception of an object was a composite of simultaneous and different perspectives. Cubism tries to help one understand the world around them in a different way by changing their perspective on a certain subject.…