HIST 2910 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Jean Cocteau, Mcdonaldization, Tokugawa Ieyasu
25 Feb 2017
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Went to the west to see how things were done there, returned to japan and wrote a famous article that argued that japan should leave asian culture or japan would be doomed just like the qing dynasty. Agued that china and korea were ruled by ignorance and arrogance and needed to be civilized introduced western social systems, ways of thing ink, ways of living reason why many call this time a cultural revolution. Said japan needed to learn from the west. He is regarded as one of the founders of modern japan. His mission in life was to educate his countrymen in new ways of thinking in order to enable japan to resist european imperialism. Greatest emperor of the chinese empire, took throne at 25 years old. Son of yongzheng and grandson of kangxi, was very serious about his job like his grandfather.
