Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Due 4/19/2013
2.Taiping Rebellion
Taiping cannonade against the Qing war-junks besieging the Heavenly Kingdom capital http://www.answers.com/topic/taiping-rebellion
1. Self-Strengthening
1. Boxer Rebellion
Boxers with captured foreigners, Chinese print, 1900. The Granger Collection, New York http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/76364/Boxer-Rebellion
6. Closing of Japan
Dutch traders were the only Europeans allowed to remain in Japan under the Tokugawa shogunate's sakoku policy, but even they were restricted to Dejima, an artificial island constructed in Nagasaki harbor. http://www.ushistory.org/civ/10e.asp
1. Unequal Treaties
1. Meiji Reforms
Meiji Constitution: the Meiji emperor proclaiming the Meiji Constitution http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/373305/Meiji-Restoration
1. Diet
The Second Meeting of the Diet in the 25th Year [of the Meiji era], Diet Building http://www.mfa.org/collections/object/the-second-meeting-of-the-diet-in-the-25th-year-of-the-meijiera-diet-building-dai-nikai-nij-gonen-kokkai-gijid-129848
Famous Places in Tokyo: Picture of Azuma Bridge and a Distant View of a Torpedo Explosion by Inoue Tankei, July 1888 http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027/throwing_off_asia_01/toa_essay02.html
1. Japanese Empire
1. Russo-Japanese War
Nogi Maresuke: sharing a toast by opposing generals in the Russo-Japanese War, 1905 http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/514017/Russo-Japanese-War
1. Sun Yat-Sen
1. 1911 Revolution
http://www.newsgd.com/specials/1911Revolution/content/2011-10/09/content_31086037.htm
1. Mao Zedong
1. Chiang Kaishek
1. Long Marh
1. Nationalist China
A leaflet that glorifies President Chiang depicts a giant celebration with uniformed marchers and bands. http://www.psywarrior.com/NationalistChinesePropaganda.html
1. Occupation of Japan
1. Collectivized Agriculture
Agricultural cooperativization is the socialist course that makes everybody prosperous, 1956 http://chineseposters.net/themes/land-reform.php
Anti-rightist campaign
http://factsanddetails.com/china.php?itemid=1153&catid=2
Long live the General Line! Long live the Great Leap Forward! Long live the People's Communes!, 1964 http://chineseposters.net/themes/great-leap-forward.php
1. Cultural Revolution
Criticize the old world and build a new world with Mao Zedong Thought as a weapon, 1966 http://chineseposters.net/themes/cultural-revolution-campaigns.php
1. One-child Policy
Two parents, one child: the ideal family according to the Chinese government (Arian Zwegers) http://www.worldcrunch.com/culture-society/time-to-abolish-china-s-one-childpolicy/c3s5251/#.UXR5NKK2aSo
1. Tiananmen Protests
Thousands of pro-democracy demonstrators protest in Tiananmen Square, May 17, 1989, in Beijing. http://abcnews.go.com/icaught/slideshow/tiananmen-square-massacre-anniversary-16490694
29 Korean War
As the Korean War went on, American air power methodically demolished virtually everything in North Korea having any military significance whatsoever. Here supply warehouses at the east-coast port of Wonsan are bombed in July, 1951. http://www.bevinalexander.com/korea/korean-war-photos.htm