DP History Questionbank

Description

This section focuses on developments in China and Japan up to the early 20th century. It examines the largely unsuccessful attempts at modernization and reform in China. The conservative and popular opposition to change was demonstrated by the failures of the Self-Strengthening Movement and the Hundred Days Reform and by the violence of the Boxer Rebellion. In contrast, Japan modernized rapidly and successfully during this period to emerge as a country that challenged the power of the Western nations in Asia.

• Tongzhi (T’ung-chih) Restoration and Self-Strengthening Movement (1861‑94)

• Impact of defeat in the Sino–Japanese War (1894‑5); Guangxu (Kuang-hsu) and the Hundred Days Reform (1898)

• Boxer Rebellion (1900‑01); the late Qing (Ch’ing) reforms

• Sun Yixian (Sun Yat-sen) and the 1911 “Double Ten” Nationalist Revolution

• Meiji Restoration (1868) in Japan; the 1889 Constitution

• Social, cultural and economic developments in Meiji Japan

• Commitment to military power; victory in the Sino–Japanese War (1894‑5) and in the Russo–Japanese War (1904‑5)

• Korean isolation: opening (1876); rebellions; annexation (1910)

Directly related questions

• 16N.3op3.HL.TZ0.8:

  To what extent did the social and cultural developments of the Meiji period transform Japan?

• 16N.3op3.HL.TZ0.7:

  To what extent was conservative opposition responsible for the failure of the Self-Strengthening Movement (1861–1894)?