HIS385H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Ingvar Runestones, Institutionalized Discrimination, Stanley Prison
Document Summary
Japanese occupation of hk: significant improvements between 1910s-30s, as mentioned in previous lecture. Interruption caused by conflicts emerging in china and rest of asia culminating with the invasion of the japanese and occupation of. Japanese in hk 1930s and half of 1940s interrupted any attempt to implement this sort of program: education: missionary schools, government schools, chinese schools (in addition to. Japanese expansion in china: mukden incident, september 18, 1931, starti(cid:374)g poi(cid:374)t of japa(cid:374)"s (cid:272)o(cid:374)ti(cid:374)e(cid:374)tal e(cid:454)pa(cid:374)sio(cid:374) Japan managed to control provinces in northeast china and transform them into a puppet state manchukuo, 1932. Installed last emperor of qing dynasty as emperor of new puppet state: full scale war, 1937. Japanese moved south along eastern coast: war broke out between china and japan. Japanese managed to take over most of north eastern coast: fall of canton, 1938. Japanese took control of canton: now, the british took this invasion seriously since canton is next door to.
