Imperialism in Asia and the Pacific

European Imperialism in Asia
Ch 22 (568-582) Ch 23 (592-613)

India East India Company
“Westernization” of India
Sepoy Rebellion
The Raj and becoming a “Royal” Colony

China Qing Dynasty/Manzhou
Xenophobia
The Myth of the China Market /New Markets for New Products
Opium Wars/“Spheres of Influence” (leases)/Hong Kong
Taiping Rebellion
Cixi (Tu-shi)
Sino-Japanese War
Boxer Rebellion
New China Movement
Sun Yat-sen/Chiang Kai-shek /Nationalists
Chinese Communism/Mao Zedong

Japan Tokugawa/Shogun/Samurai
Matthew Perry
Meiji Restoration:
Military
Constitutional
Industrial (Zaibatsu)
Imperialism (e.g. Korea)
Racial Nationalism
Sino-Japanese War & Russo-Japanese War
Manchuria (1931)/“The Rape of Nanjing”
U.S. and the Japanese Pacific Empires


United States
William McKinley
Spanish-American War/Philippine Insurrection/War of 1898
Cuba/Puerto Rico/Guam/The Philippines—Spanish Colonies
Insurrectos and Concentrado Camps
Albert Beveridge—“March of the Flag”
Theodore Roosevelt