Japan wanted to conquer all of Asia in the pacific coast so that they can become the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. The United States did not like Japan's aggressiveness because of the Philippines and
In How the East Was Won, Andrew Phillips answers reveals the crucial parallels uniting the Mughal Empire, the Qing Dynasty and the British Raj. Vastly outnumbered and stigmatised as parvenus, the Mughals and Manchus pioneered similar strategies of cultural statecraft, first to build the ...
In the seventeenth century, when the Manchus conquered China, it was the custom among the Chinese for the women to have small feet, and among the Manchus for the men to wear-pigtails. Instead of each dropping their own foolish custom, they each adopted the foolish custom of the other, ...
he was presented with the imperial seal of the Yan Empire by the Mongolian ruling court which officially recognized him as their Khan or ruler. In 1636, he renamed his empire the Great Qing Empire but did not live to conquer Beijing as he died in 1643. ...