HIS284H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Tai Chi, Yuan Shikai, Most Favoured Nation
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Talking as political, scientific, social traits emergence of ideas in europe. Democracy, capitalism, industrial production , secular society movement. We define modern as what happens when europe comes. Ignores the existence of the rest of the world have scholars who believe that modern and. Nation: have to be created, the people vs country- geographical. A country making a nation is political modernity imperial rivalries. 1894/1895 first war between china & japan. Japan is lacking in raw materials , small country always importing need to export finished goods. Be able to become largest export country, economic power, what"s their economic power to equate to a world power (equal to western power) 1885 fukuzawa yukichi need to treat china & korea like the west does. Japan benefits from china"s lack of military growth. After meiji restoration was to build up japan. Western outfit, meiji emperor wears western military suit. Japanese mandatory conscripts all able bodied males from 17-40.
