Why was China, with a larger workforce and a long history as an economic superpower, unable to industrialize the way Japan did?
What will be an ideal response?
A. China's lack of industrialization
1. Western industrialization eroded Chinese domination of the global economy
2. reversed the military balance of power
3. early impact of mechanization was on munitions
4. private investment was channeled through state-run monopolies in all these
fields and China remained a preindustrial power
5. Chinese navy was in bad shape
a. could not defeat better-armed Japanese fleet
6. had to deal with long-standing problems
a. peasant uprisings; Muslim unrest, which the Qing repressed with
difficulty; and the erosion of state power to provincial strongmen
7. Indian and Japanese competition in traditional Chinese exports
8. trade supplied Japanese industries that were outstripping those of China
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