Higher Level IB History - East Asia Revision Guide
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Higher Level IB History Revision guide Topic 4: Early Modernization and Imperial Decline in Asia - mid 19th century to early 20th century Overview This topic focuses on developments in China and Japan up to the early 20th century. It examines the largely unsuccessful attempts at modernization and reform in China. The conservative and popular opposition to change was demonstrated by the failures of the Self-Strengthening Movement and the Hundred Days Reform and by the violence of the Boxer Rebellion. In contrast, Japan modernized rapidly and successfully during this period to emerge as a country that challenged the power of the Western nations in Asia. Timeline 1839-42 First Opium War in China 1853 Matthew Perry “opens” Japan 1854 Treaty of Kanagawa (between Japan and USA) 1858 Harris Treaty 1866 Chinese fact-finding mission to the capitals of Europe 1866 Peasant militia in Choshu refuse to disband and take over the Daimyo, putting reformers in power. 1870 Tianjin Massacre 1877 Satsuma rebellion 1884-5 Sino-French War 1887 Peace Preservation Law 1889: Meiji Constitution Written 1894-5 Sino-Japanese War 1895 Treaty of Shimonoseki 1898 Hundred Days’ Reforms 1900 Boxer Rebellion 1901 Boxer Protocol 1901-1911 Late Qing Reforms 1911 “Double Tenth” revolution
Higher Level IB History - East Asia Revision Guide
Higher Level IB History Revision guide Topic 4: Early
Modernization and Imperial Decline in Asia - mid 19th century to
early 20th century
Overview
This topic focuses on developments in China and Japan up to the
early 20th century. It examines the largely unsuccessful attempts
at modernization and reform in China. The conservative and popular
opposition to change was demonstrated by the failures of the
Self-Strengthening Movement and the Hundred Days Reform and by the
violence of the Boxer Rebellion. In contrast, Japan modernized
rapidly and successfully during this period to emerge as a country
that challenged the power of the Western nations in Asia.
Timeline
1839-42 First Opium War in China 1853 Matthew Perry opens
Japan1854 Treaty of Kanagawa (between Japan and USA)1858 Harris
Treaty 1866 Chinese fact-finding mission to the capitals of
Europe1866 Peasant militia in Choshu refuse to disband and take
over the Daimyo, putting reformers in power. 1870 Tianjin Massacre
1877 Satsuma rebellion 1884-5 Sino-French War1887 Peace
Preservation Law1889: Meiji Constitution Written 1894-5
Sino-Japanese War1895 Treaty of Shimonoseki1898 Hundred Days
Reforms1900 Boxer Rebellion1901 Boxer Protocol1901-1911 Late Qing
Reforms1911 Double Tenth revolution
Table of ContentsOverview1Timeline1Chapter 1 China 1861 191131.1
Self-Strengthening Movement3
