Instant Access To 100,000+ Essays!

With pressure of Western Imperialism amidst them, China and Japan reacted in massively different ways. How each empire would react to imperialism and colonialism would define their futures in the rapidly dynamic world; it would become necessary to leave the old world behind. China’s worldly view would perhaps be the key to their lagging assimilation of western influences. The ideology that the Chinese upheld consisted of: China is fully self-sufficient, China is superior, China is the center of the world, everybody outside of China are barbarians. With such a chauvinistic inward view and ultra conservative beliefs from Confucianism, China quickly fell behind other progressively evolving empires. Outside powers soon blew past China with industrialization, military technologies, and economics (utilization and control of trade). Isolation would allow the strength of outside empires to surpass China’s, creating a huge gap in economic and military power. Lack of initial