CONTENTS
PART 1: CHINA
Unit: I Opening up of China 11
a) Opium Wars (1839-1860), Unequal Treatnes 11
b) Increasing Western economic interests; Open Door Policy 25
Unit: II Emergence of Nationalism 31
a) Popular Movements: Taiping, Self-Strengthening Movement, Boxer Rebellion 31
b) Nationalism in China: Revolution of 1911, Sun Yat-sen and Three People's Principles 54
c) Emergence of the Republic and Yuan Shikai, Warlordism (1916-1925) 68
d) New Intellectual Ideas and May Fourth Movement 73
Unit: III Communism in China 83
a) Political crisis in the 1920s 83
b) Problem of early industrialization 87
c) Kuomintang and The First United Front 90
d) Communist Party under Mao Tse-tung, Second United Front, Long March, The Chinese Revolution (1949), Establishment of the People's Republic of China 93
PART II: JAPAN
Unit: IV End of Isolation to Meiji Restoration 105
A)Pre-Restoration Period 105
I.Tokugawa Shogunate 111
II.Japan and the West-Perry Mission, Harris Treaty
B) Meiji Restoration (1867-68) 119
I.Meiji Constitution; Rise of Political Parties
II Processes and nature of modernization: Abolition of feudalism, Industrialization, Zaibatsu, Military changes
132
Unit: V Emergence of Japan as an Imperial Power 141
I.Sino-Japanese War, 1894-95 141
II. Russo-Japanese War, 1904-05 150
III. Washington Conference 156
IV. Manchurian Crisis: Rise of Militarism 165
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