Compare the role of western imperial powers in encouraging or discouraging industrialization in Japan and China. What accounts for the differences?
What will be an ideal response?
A. Role of western imperial powers
1. Japan
a. Commodore Perry's mission was to persuade or force the Japanese
to open their ports to the United States
b. Western powers, exploiting their temporary military advantage,
imposed "unequal treaties" that allowed them to sell products in
Japan cheaply
c. exempting their nationals from having to obey Japanese laws or
submit to Japanese courts
d. revised the terms of trade with the West helped increase ability to
develop and industrialize
2. China
a. Westerners' conviction that they had to humble China to secure
freedom of action for merchants and missionaries
b. China and the West were mutually blinded by perceptions of each
other's "barbarism"
c. Opium Wars exposed Chinese weakness and dispelled Western respect
d. heresy to acknowledge the West as civilized
e. Chinese were "Asiatic barbarians"
f. deference to selective Western superiority seemed the best course
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