Emma Sanderson Witte Asia Research Paper 29 May 2024 In the 1800s and early 1900s, England had control over some or all parts of Indian and Chinese territory and some or all of Indian and Chinese governments. The Indian soldiers who worked for the British East India Company (BEIC) Rebelled, which then caused England to colonize India. Later, the Brits realized they could trade Indian opium for Chinese silk and tea. The Chinese then dumped the opium into the sea, which caused the first Opium war, which was resolved by the Nanjing treaty. All of this caused China and India to rebel against the British and eventually become free of them several decades later. China ended up communist and India ended up a democracy after England left. This is due …show more content…
This was made possible when Japan attacked the night before to break through Chinese defense. Two months later, Japan was able to enter Pei-tsang and defeat China (Plante 12-13). The rebellion ended when the Boxer Protocol was signed in 1901. It stated that China had to pay indemnity to all who fought the rebellion, Foreign forces were stationed in Beijing for a year, and the Qing Dynasty was greatly weakened, making them vulnerable to the 1911 revolution. A similar thing happened in India about 40 years earlier, which was the Sepoy rebellion. The Sepoy rebellion was the rebellion where England was angering the Indians too much with their policies that did not align with Indian culture and traditions, and the Sepoys eventually rebelled. The Sepoys attacked English officers in Barrackpore in 1857 because they were mad that the English greased their cartridges with pork and beef fat. This made fellow Sepoys in Meerut angry, who proceeded to shoot at English officers. They then walked to Delhi, and the Meerut and local Sepoys overtook Delhi together (Britannica 5). England was divided into three parts: 1. fights and struggles in Delhi, Kanpur, and Lucknow in the Summer, …show more content…
The Taiping rebellion and Amritsar massacre were two major events in Chinese and Indian history that caused their countries great harm and distress. The Taiping Rebellion was peasant led. The peasants who led it along with their leader Hong Xiuquan believed that Hong was Jesus’ brother. It started in 1850 and in 1853, they took over China’s six richest provinces with an army of over a million. The rebels wanted to destroy Confucianism and morph China and its people into something based on their view of Christianity. The end of the second Opium war benefitted them because China was forced to tolerate Christian missionaries and converts, but the west also helped the Qing bring their rebellion to an end. It lasted for 15 years and over 20 million people died (China on World Stage 5). Another conflict that England caused, the Amritsar Massacre, was not a rebellion, it was just the English prejudicing Indians again. In 1919, violent protests sparked in response to prominent Indian leaders being arrested and banned from the city. During the protests, the British soldiers shot at civilians, lots of buildings were looted and burned, and nationalists attacked English soldiers and
Comparing the Western Rebellion and Kett's Rebellion in Terms of Causes and Threat The year 1549 in which both rebellions took place was a troublesome year for the Lord Protector, at the time, Somerset. It was plagued with bad harvests, inflation, poverty and war. These factors made 1549 a watershed year for rioting and rebellion. Though these are the only two rebellions that posed a serious threat, they were definitely not unique.
From the Dynastic Era to the People’s Republic of China, the power was always in the hands of the government, leaders took action without the people’s say and the people did not have a voice. In the Longest March, 1934- 35 the Guomindang forcefully attacked the Chinese Communist Party and pushed them out to the North and West. By aggressively pushing them back and impeaching Mao Zedong as the Chairman, the Guomindang thought they could suppress the other party, to win control over China. This demonstrates lack of democracy because the people did not have a say on which party they were in favor of. In addition, the two parties did not formally address the people’s curiosities and concerns and instead physically fought to take over the country. As well as the lack of democracy, frequent rebellions also occurred. The Boxer Rebellion developed in the late 1800’s and peaked drastically in 1900. The cause of the rebellion was due to the people’s resistance to accept Western and Japanese morals. Mostly made up of the peasant population, the Boxers attacked railroads along with any aspects of Westernization present. The rebellion progressed so rapidly that foreign militaries from the west were deployed to put an end to the
In the book Whiskey Rebellion: George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, and the Frontier Rebels Who Challenged America’s Newfound Sovereignty by William Hogeland. The author doesn’t just talk about what started the Whiskey Rebellion and what happened during this period. But he wanted to show you the underlining of this Rebellion as it was one of the major parts of the founding period. Also that there are lot of characters that we don’t learn about, he realizes that people don’t really know about the Whiskey Rebellion. That is wasn’t just a couple of “blackened faced, dress wearing” (Hogeland 20) people. He wanted the general people to understand what the Whiskey Rebellion really was the establishment of federal authority.
There were many rebellions in the United States history, some peaceful and some violent. Shays' Rebellion in 1786 and the Whiskey Rebellion in 1794 are examples of two brutal rebellions that led to the deaths of many innocent people. Rebellions can develop due to many conditions including unfair laws, in this case the raised taxation of Whiskey, unfair treatment, and disagreements over sensitive topics. The Shays' Rebellion showed the Articles of Confederation was too weak, while the Whiskey Rebellion proved the Constitution to be a strong framework of government.
The whiskey Rebellion Witten by Thomas P. Slaughter talks bout a rebellion that setup a precedent in American history. It gives us the opportunity to really comprehend this rebellion that thanks to fast action from the Federal government didn’t escalate to a more serious problem like civil war. The book the Whiskey Rebellion frontier of the epilogue to the American Revolution captures the importance and drama of the rebellion. The book is divided into three sections context, chronology and sequence. In the first section Slaughter explain the reason why the taxes was needed in the first place. According to Anthony Brandt in his article of American history name “Rye Whiskey, RYE Whiskey” Alexander Hamilton, secretary of the
During the late 1860s the Red River Settlement was rapidly changing and along with these changes came multiple causes and conflicts that would subsequently to a resistance called the Red River Rebellion. Many profound changes occurred in the Red River Settlement that had caused problems and hostility among the inhabitants to emerge such as:the arrival of Canadians to the settlement, the economic problems and the decline of the Hudson Bay Company. However, the Red River Rebellion was sparked by the Hudson Bay Company selling Rupert’s Land to the new Dominion of Canada without consulting with the inhabitants nor paying any regards to their interests.The colonists of the Red River Settlement, many of whom were Metis, feared for their culture and land rights under the dominion’s control. In order to ascertain that their rights would be protected, the Metis set up a provisional government under the leadership of Louis Riel to negotiate an agreement with the new Dominion of Canada that the Red River Settlement and the lands surrounding it, could enter Confederation as the province of Manitoba under their own terms.
Throughout the nineteenth century China’s emperors watched as foreign powers began to encroach closer and closer upon their land. Time after time, China was forced to make embarrassing concessions. Foreign militaries more modernly armed would constantly defeat the imperial armies. As the dawn of a new century was about to begin, Empress Tsu Hsi of the Ch’ing Dynasty searched for a way of ridding her empire of the foreign invaders.
As simply stated, a rebellion is an effort by many people to change a government or leader of a country by the use of protest or violence. In 1786, one man had returned home from serving his country in the American Revolutionary War to find that the same government he was fighting for had turned against him. With heavy taxes, loss of livestock, and possibly his social status at risk he sold his most prized possessions in hopes of one day regaining control of his livelihood. This man was Daniel Shays; in the late summer of 1786 he banned together a group of likeminded farmers who were about to lose everything they had worked so hard to achieve to an unruly elite. Shays’ Rebellion was an armed uprising that was triggered by financial difficulties brought out of post war economic depression, a credit crunch caused by a lack of hard currency, and financially harsh government policies.
In the middle of the 19th century, despite a few similarities between the initial responses of China and Japan to the West, they later diverged; which ultimately affected and influenced the modernizing development of both countries. At first, both of the Asian nations rejected the ideas which the West had brought upon them, and therefore went through a time period of self-imposed isolation. However, the demands that were soon set by Western imperialism forced them, though in different ways, to reconsider. And, by the end of the 19th century both China and Japan had introduced ‘westernizing’ reforms. China’s aim was to use modern means to retain and preserve their traditional Confucian culture. Whereas Japan, on the other hand, began to successfully mimic Western technology as it pursued modernization, and thus underwent an astounding social upheaval. Hence, by the year 1920, Japan was recognized as one of the world’s superpowers, whereas China was on the edge of anarchy.
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The imperial realms of East Asia before the 19th century were largely based on the theory that Asian countries were far better than their neighbors in the West. The nonchalant manner portrayed by East Asian countries towards western technology and culture led China to become unknowledgeable of the Western empires. As a result, China was astonishingly impacted by imperialism from Great Britain during the 1800’s. During the 18th century Great Britain had set up trade off the coast of the Chinese borders to trade British silver for China’s soft silks, fine porcelain, and strong teas. During this period Qing officials overlooked the foreign brokers. By the early 1800’s, however, Great Britain b...
The geography of China was something like a fence. This isolation made the people of China feel like their country was prestigious and secluded from the rest of the world. With deserts and the Himalayas running along most of the border, it was extremely difficult to cross over one of the most dangerous mountain ranges in the world and a few other scorching deserts with the little transport they had during that time. The only way merchants could come into the country was the southeastern coast of China where most of the prosper cities resided. What led China to become conceited was because they had an abundant of goods that most of the world wanted. In 1760-1830s, China was famous for its porcelain (rich Europeans loved it), silk, and of course, tea. Since this Eastern Powerhouse’s goods were so popular, therefore, there were only a few things that interested them to trade with. It seemed as if tea was a drug for the Europeans because for them it was just so addicting, to the point they would do anything just to get more and more. The only things that were worthy for trading with the Chinese were gingko (type of plant), shark fin, a soft type of wood (used for incense) and silver. As the demand for tea rose, Britain gradually ran out of silver to trade with, and was desperate to find what China wanted. Then, the British resorted to trading opium. China was very picky of their opium. There was a certain kind of make they wanted, it was a compact ball wr...
To the normal Chinese man during the early 19th century, opium was nothing more than a luxury that only those of higher power or influence could indulge themselves in. Yet by the middle of the 19th century opium had become a commodity that everyone could have and that at the same time they seemed to need. Even though it was now such a big part of the normal chinese culture, it did not benefit the people nor Chinese culture, it did not benefit the people or the government. The only benefit it did seem to have was towards the British. The British were flourishing from the new Chinese market for opium, where the Chinese were beginning to turn into addicts of a drug that was slowly poisoning their way of life. The people no longer were concerned about their advancement and safety of their family but about how and when they would be able to get more opium. The Chinese government was not pleased about this and decided to take a stand that would, in the long run, only damage the very people they were trying to protect. This stand came to be known as the First Opium War (1839-1842). By the end of the First Opium War China had begun to lose its sense of identity through the use of treaties and encroachment of foreign countries, starting with the British and their Treaty of Nanking.
From covering Japan’s perilous imperial rule to analyzing Korea’s ambivalent adoption of democratic governance, Modern East Asia explored a broad range of subjects important for one who aspires to understand Asia holistically. Much time was even spent examining China’s horrid history at the hands of foreign meddling, giving insight into a nation feared as the future #1 economic power of the world. Although we covered a broad range of topics, each was given particular attention, never skipping major events or characters which shaped Asia’s history over the last several hundred years. Essentially, this class provided an open atmosphere for students to learn the intricate history of major Asian countries in addition to sharing ideas on the effectiveness of their pre-modern governance.
By the year 1857 the British had established complete political control of India. As Western education was introduced and missionaries eroded Hindu society resentment among Indian people grew and it was joined by unease among the old governing class when the British decided to formally abolish the Mughal Empire.