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rundown of postcolonial Asia

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Homework for over the break:

• Watch TV, read a newspaper article, look at a political cartoon… anything related to Israel/Palestine– Write a summary of what you saw/read– What is your opinion– 8 sentences– Who? What? Why? Where? When? How?

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--1994 BCE-1800 CE Various Dynasties

Silk road

Gunpowder

Moveable type

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--1842, Opium War & the Treaty of Nanjing

Trade imbalance with UK UK started shipping opium to China

Chinese fought back

Unequal treaty

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--Spheres of Influence

European countries carved China up, took control of certain areas &

demanded trading rights

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-- 1850-1864; Taiping RebellionChinese rebellion against European imperialism and spheres of influenceSupported by Chinese Government

-- 1900; Boxer RebellionFists of righteous Harmony started killing white missionaries and traders in ChinaNot supported by the Chinese Government

Both are struggles against foreign influence in China

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--1911; Civil War

Nationalists (Jiang Jeshzi)

Communists (Mao Zedong)

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--1931-1945; Japanese Imperialism

Rape of Nanking

Greater East Asia Co prosperity Sphere

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1949 Mao established Communist Government in China

Defeated the nationalists

Tried to Modernize China

Didn’t get along with the USSR

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--1965 Cultural Revolution

Great Leap forward failed

Army of young people helped arrest, imprison & kill millions of “anti-Mao” Chinese

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Deng Xiaoping

• Introduced capitalism to Chinese economy

• Reformer (like Gorbachev)

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Tiananmen Square

• 1,000,000’s of students protested for DEMOCRACY

• Students were killed, or jailed… it was a massacre