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Asian History
The major difference between these two groups was that the Communist Party was, of course, communist while the Kuomintang wanted a republican form of government. The two groups did work together...
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Asian History
The events before and during World War II had a big impact on China. Beginning in 1931, the Japanese invaded China. In 1931, the Japanese invaded Manchuria, in northern China, to capture the...
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Asian History
From the Meiji Restoration in 1868 up until Japan's growing imperialist aggression in the 1930s, the country became increasingly isolated from the outside world—but not completely, because a lack...
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Asian History
After the Chinese Civil War ended in 1949, the victorious Communist Party came into power in China. Mao Zedong, who was one of the most important strategists and leaders of the Communist Party from...
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Asian History
The Mandate of Heaven is a fundamental concept in classical Chinese philosophy. Good rulers were allowed to continue their reigns, but bad rulers would lose the mandate, and it would be transferred...
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Asian History
The term "Bengali Renaissance" is used to describe the intellectual, political, cultural, and artistic changes that took place in Bengal over a period of about a hundred years, from the early...
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Asian History
Although Maoism is derived from Marxism and remained fairly close to it in many respects, Mao's focus was on the peasantry and escape from China's feudal past rather than the proletariat and...
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Asian History
There were multiple reasons for the rise of China during this period. First, and possibly most importantly, China emerged as a major superpower in the Communist bloc after the conclusion of the...
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Asian History
If we think of morality broadly enough, then morality plays a very important role in the transfer of the Mandate of Heaven from one emperor to the next in ancient Chinese thought. People typically...
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Asian History
There were two main factors that led to the erosion of the Tokugawa Shogunate and the Meiji Restoration. First, there was the rise of the merchant class and the decline in the power of the samurai...
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Asian History
Imperialism had a significant effect on China. China was a very weak country around 1900. Due to a lot of infighting between the warlords in China, China was not a strong nation. As a result,...
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Asian History
Sun Yat-sen is considered to be the founding father of the Republic of China (not to be confused with the People's Republic of China, fathered by Mao Zedong and currently the ruling government in...
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Asian History
In a recent New York Times writing, India's geographic positioning in Asia was discussed to play a major role in its political reality. Neighboring nations such as Pakistan, Myanmar, Nepal, and...
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Asian History
The impact of the Treaty of Nanjing was very much like the impact of the Opium War, since the Treaty of Nanjing came out of the Opium War. In this treaty, the British were given Hong Kong, as well...
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Asian History
Both were major, long-lasting regional empires. While the Han dynasty lasted for around 2,000 years (starting around 206 BCE), the Roman Empire was slightly older and shorter-lived, lasting from...
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Asian History
The Taiping Rebellion led to the deaths of millions of Chinese so that, in and of itself, is a huge effect. However, its more lasting effect was to further weaken the Chinese imperial government....
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Asian History
The spread of Buddhism and the spread of Islam have in common the fact that both were spread to some degree by trade and to some degree by conquest. The major difference between the two is that...
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Asian History
The early Chinese civilization centered almost entirely around the Yellow River valley as it was a fertile region conveniently accessed by travel on the river and without many geographical...
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Asian History
Japan and China reacted to European contact in ways that were mostly rather different. The two countries both thought the Europeans were culturally inferior to themselves, but the Japanese were...
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Asian History
After Japan surrendered in 1945, both the Nationalists and Communists sought to control China politically. Because attempts at negotiation and compromise failed, control of China was ultimately...
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Asian History
The Mongols were Tengerians, which is a kind of shamanistic belief system. Shamanism is a religious practice in which a holy man or shaman is believed to have direct access to the spirit world....
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Asian History
First, please note that we cannot actually write essays for you here on eNotes. Instead, we can give you information that can help you write your own essay. There are two main reasons why Japan...
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Asian History
The Tang dynasty was a high point in classical Chinese civilization, lasting from the 7th century until the 10th cent. And by the Dar al Islam we can refer to the Islamic civilization that...
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Asian History
The impact of the opium trade was wholly negative. Let's not forget that opium is a highly addictive substance, so the trade in opium brought the misery of drug addiction to millions of Chinese...
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Asian History
Subhas Chandra Bose said the words "Give me blood and I will give you freedom." Bose was a leader in the Indian Independence movement. He also created the Indian National Army. The Indian...
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Asian History
There are generally said to have been two motivations for the voyages of Zheng He. Neither of them, in contrast to European voyages of exploration, had to do with wealth or actual practical power...
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Asian History
The major impact of the northern nomads on China during this time was that the threat of the nomads led to discontent within China. This happened because of the expenditures needed to deal with...
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Asian History
Chandragupta Maurya (340-298 B.C.) was the first ruler of the empire that bore his name. He is credited with unifying the Indian state, a feat considered all the more remarkable for the previous...
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Asian History
Perhaps the most important social factor that helped to end the Han Dynasty was the idea of the "mandate of Heaven." This idea, which came from Confucianism, held that a country would have good...
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Asian History
One of the most imporant economic factors that caused the fall of the Han Dynasty was taxation. By the time that the Han Dynasty was getting weaker, it was unable to tax many of its subjects. This...
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Asian History
It was not inevitable. From one perspective, there was significant debate among policy-makers in the United States about the degree to which the US should aid Chiang Kai-Shek. US aid was sporadic...
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Asian History
China has always been a focal point for international trade, either through official channels or black markets. Many foreign markets, especially Europe and the Americas, valued Chinese goods as...
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Asian History
For the people of Singapore, the Japanese occupation was a virtual reign of terror with high inflation, limited supplies of food and other necessities, and the mass execution of many deemed...
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Asian History
After the Spanish-American War ended, the United States gained control of some of Spain’s colonies. Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines were some colonies that the United States received from...
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Asian History
Sir Syed Ahmed Khan Bahadur wrote “The Loyal Muhammadans of India” to achieve greater Muslim autonomy and greater status for Muslims with the British. Bahadur was an educator who wanted to improve...
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Asian History
After Commodore Perry, a representative of the U.S. government, arrived in Japan in 1853 and demanded trading privileges with Japan, Japan was faced with the question of whether or not to end its...
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Asian History
Sun Yat-sen influenced China by helping to cause the overthrow of the Ch'ing (also known as Manchu) Dynasty. By doing so, Sun ushered in an era in which various factions fought for control of...
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Asian History
At first the Japanese seem to have been open to a limited amount of contact with the west, but eventually they became concerned and thus greatly curtailed such contact until the mid-19th century....
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Asian History
Questions like this cannot be answered definitively. We cannot go back and rerun China’s history, giving it different geography, to see what happens. Instead, we can only speculate. One famous...
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Asian History
The Han Dynasty developed into the strongest and longest lasting Chinese Empire in 206 B.C., enduring until 220 A.D. The dynasty was as powerful as the later Roman Empire. Their government was...
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Asian History
The Mongols failed to conquer Japan even though they had previously managed to conquer Korea and the much, much larger country of China. The major reason for this was geography and a second reason...
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Asian History
The desire of Japan to build a modern industrial civilization is what drove their desire at expansion. Document 1A, which is the resource map of Japan, demonstrates that the country was limited...
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Asian History
In Japan, although various daimyo (regional lords) accepted some of the new technologies and certainly the trade from Dutch, English, and Portuguese traders, the Catholic missions to Japan quickly...
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Asian History
The youth of China supported Mao largely out of the idealism and zealousness that can often come with youth. In the West, we had youths doing things like becoming hippies and trying to change the...
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Asian History
There are two major factors that led to Buddhism becoming popular in India and these are: The support by people against the caste system Royal patronage through King Ashoka of the Mauryan Empire...
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Asian History
The Battle of Plassey was important because of the impact it had on who would control India. Before this battle, the British East India Company, the French, and independent Indian rulers were all...
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Asian History
Manmohan Ghosh started the Indian Mirror in 1861 and edited it until 1862. He was a lawyer, political reformer and the leader of Indian National Congress which was established to serve as a...
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Asian History
Taken out of context, Bose's words may give the wrong impression. He called Gandhi "The Father of the Country," but unlike Gandhi and Nehru, who sought Indian independence without bloodshed, Bose...
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Asian History
Japan was closed for over 200 years during the "Sakoku" period of Japanese history. During this time, it was illegal for any Japanese to leave the islands or for any foreigner to enter. The major...
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Asian History
The major result of the Boxer Rebellion was that the Ch'ing Dynasty lost a great deal of credibility and power and a group of reformers gained power. The Manchu Ch'ing Dynasty had already been...