Lasting from 1937 and concluding in 1945, the Sino-Japanese was a military warfare fought between the Empire of Japan and the Republic of China. The frictions developed between the two territories for superiorit
The Opium Wars (First Opium War 1839-1842; Second Opium War 1856-1860) were a series of imperial wars fought primarily by the British forces against the Qing dynasty of China over the right to sell opium, a highly addictive drug, in Chinese markets. The war was, at its core, a purely...
point in time, China and Japan originally rejected the idea of increasing trade at the demands of the Europeans and Americans, China’s government was unable to push its country to become powerful and modern because they proceeded to resist western pressure to open trade, which caused a war. ...
And while ‘Murica was busy flag waving and bro-chanting its own name, the rest of the world has long since emerged from the ashes of war, poverty, dictatorship, and colonialism that marked much of the 20th century, and is rapidly catching up with…and, in some cases, has already overta...
Culture War is Class War disguised. The Wealthy Elite--the "Filthy Rich"--foment Culture War in society to distract and cover their real economic motives. Culture War, Class War explores the resulting cultural divide--how it was instigated and kept alive
The Treaty of Nanking did not, however, resolve the opium trade dispute, and the conflict escalated again, into the Second Opium War. The settlement of that conflict was the first Convention of Peking, ratified on Oct. 18, 1860, when Britain acquired the southern part of the Kowloon Peninsul...
War Two was window-dressing. There was a Japanese parliament, but it never fought the Emperor’s government in the way that all European parliaments had fought their monarchs on occasion. It was never really in command, and quietly let itself be shunted aside in the crisis of the 1930s....
Over the centuries, his conquered neighbors fought back, and the Thai people dominated large swaths of Laos from the late 1700s to the early 1800s. What we know as Laos today was built from an assemblage of different ethnic groups with distinct languages and cultures.A...
Alfred Cortot is undoubtedly one of the most controversial pianists in classical music history. But for many famous pianists of the present and the past, the greatest pianist or one of the greatest pianists was Alfred Cortot. Many pianists had a dee
It’s a short distance from Shenzhen and Huawei’s shiny new buildings to the mouth of the Pearl River — scene of the Opium Wars and the onset of China’s “Century of Humiliation.” It was there between 1839 and 1842 that a small number of British steamships destroyed China’s fleet...