EUROPEAN IMPERIALISM IN ASIA

MING CHINA

• Wanted self-sufficiency
• Frontier defense
• Great Wall

QING DYNASTY

• Manchu adopt Chinese culture
• Han consider them barbarians

DECLINE OF THE QING

• Population growth
• Tax increases
• White Lotus Rebellion

Trade grew as Europe wanted Chinese tea

PORTUGUESE

• Jesuit missionaries held great power
• Qing rulers became suspicious

THE OPIUM WARS

• British-controlled India began exporting opium to China

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• China blocks opium import
• British seized control of Hong Kong

UNEQUAL TREATIES

• U.S. And France demand similar trade treaties

TAIPING REBELLION

• Uprising started by Chinese Christians

THE BOXER REBELLION

• Violent anti-Christian and anti-foreign movement

JAPAN

TOKUGAWA RULE

• Saw westerners as a threat

Social hierarchy in japan

• Samurai
• Farmers
• Artisans
• Merchants

THE UNEQUAL TREATIES

• Same thing that happened to China!

Meiji Restoration

• Combine "western" advances with "eastern" values

Samurai uprisings

• Government wanted to abolish the 4 classes of society

The Satsuma rebellion

• Samurai rebelled against the government