HIST 218 Lecture Notes - Zaibatsu, Total War, Chemical Industry
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Chapter twelve vietnam, korea, and taiwan under colonial rule. 1941-45: japanese colonial presence: vietnam under the french. French annexation of cochinchine began in 1862, completed in 1867. Emperors forced to comply with french colonial hegemony. Most bureaucrats continued serving court continuance of examination system until 1915 in tonkin and 1919 in. Most vietnamese continued to work land increasingly this was not land they owned. Wealthy/fortunate landowners increased holdings, while newly opened lands went to wealthy and well-connected absentee landlords. Chinese immigration; retained own identity and maintained by french and nguyen small but growing lower bourgeoisie urban intelligentsia, often from elite families with tradition of. Confucianism, who kept distance from french formed leadership of anticolonial movements however, diversity of views presented challenges to forming coherent movement further splinters along regional differences and varying experiences of colonialism lack of commonalities, such as religion.