Emerging Asia

Over the Thanksgiving holiday, please read Mahbuhani, chapters 1-3.

South Asia Since Independence from British Rule

For Wednesday's class, please read chapter 20.

Cool exhibit link.

Korea and Southeast Asia I

REVISED:
For Friday's class, please read chapter 19 to p. 422.
For Monday's class, please read the rest of chapter 19.

Lunch and Museum Plans

We have reservations for dim sum at 1:30 on Saturday, 11/23, in Palo Alto. From there, we'll head to the Cantor Museum on the Stanford campus.

Tai Pan
560 Waverley Street at University Ave
Palo Alto, CA 94301
650-329-9168

The video (in three parts) about Occupied Japan that we watched on Friday can be found at the following links: video1, video2, video3.

China Under Communist Rule; Taiwan and Hong Kong

For Monday's class, please read chapter 18 from page 411, and be prepared to answer the following questions:

• What was Mao's background, and what was his philosophy?
• Was the revolution a radical departure from Chinese tradition?
• What left a legacy of anti-American bitterness?
• What was the purpose of the Great Leap Forward, and why did it fail?
• What alarmed the Russians about China?
• What was the Cultural Revolution, and why is it considered the greatest cataclysm in world history?
• Imagine what a movement like the Cultural Revolution would be like in America.
• What brought an end to the Cultural Revolution?
• What successes has China had since 1949?
• What has been the cost of progress?
• What are the "Autonomous Regions"?
• When discussing the trade imbalance, what do we need to realize about 60% of China's exports?
• What was Taiwan's experience after 1945?
• What is the status of Hong Kong and why?
• What are Southeast Asian countries concerned about with regard to the Chinese living there?

Japan's Postwar Revival

Sunday Extra Credit Opportunity: Korean Cultural Day at Asian Art Museum in San Francisco: http://sf.funcheap.com/korean-cultural-day-festival-asian-art-museum/

For Friday's class, please read chapter 18 to page 411.

Here are the links to the video (in three parts) about Occupied Japan that we watched in class: video1, video2, video3.

Asia from 1920 to the End of World War II (2)

For Monday's class, please read chapter 17 from page 384 to the end, and be prepared to answer the following questions:

• How did Japan benefit from WW I?
• How did the Japanese treat Korea, Taiwan, and Manchuria?
• What was unfortunate about the 1889 constitution? What were the results?
• How did the Great Depression effect Japan?
• How did the Japanese military respond to the threat of a unified China? Was the response supported by the civilion government?
• Who was Henry Puyi?
• How did Japanese fascism differ from Italian and German fascism?
• Why did the U.S. forbid the export of oil and scrap iron to Japan?
• What was Japan's response to the U.S. embargo? Why?
• What arguments can be made against Japanese claims that they were the victims in WW II?
• What mistakes did Chiang Kai-shek make?
• How did the communists gain wide popular support?
• What reinforced Allied stereotypes of the Japanese as fanatics?
• Why were the Japanese ready to surrender by early 1945, and why did the U.S.  use the atom bombs anyway?

Asia from 1920 to the End of World War II (1)

For Wednesday's class, please read chapter 17 to page 384, and be prepared to answer the following questions:

• Why did full colonialism come so late to most of Southeast Asia?
• What marked the end of colonialism in Southeast Asia?
• What effect did Western colonialism have on Southeast Asia?
• Who did Western colonial powers protect? How?
• Where was Western-style education restricted? Why?
• Describe plantation agriculture.
• Outline America's history with the Philippines.
• Who were Gandhi, Nehru, and Jinnah, and what roles did they play in India's independence movement?
• What/who can be blamed for the tragedy of partition?
• What was going on in Manchuria during the warlord period in China?
• Why were the communists working for and with the Guomindang?
• Describe the promising start of Chiang Kai-shek's leadership?
• How did the relationship between the communists and Guomindang change?
• What is the Long March?
• What were Mao's strategies?
• Why did the Japanese launch a full-scale assault on China in 1937?
• Why did the communists come out on top?

Nationalism and Revolution in China and India

For Monday's class, please read chapter 16, and be prepared to answer the following questions:

• How did the Qing respond to its defeat in the Opium War? How did foreigners react to this response?
• How much impact did westerners have on the majority of Chinese people?
• What were limitations of the "self-strengthening" movement?
• What was done militarily to combat internal rebellion in China, and what were the unintended consequences?
• Why wasn't there a complete colonial takeover of China?
• How did the efforts of the Guomindang (Nationalist party) play out?
• What inspired the May Fourth movement? Why did it ultimately fail?

• List the key changes in India's economy after 1857? Were they beneficial or detrimental?
• What is the root cause of India's poverty?
• How did the Indian response to foreign domination differ from that of China?
• What did the INC have in common with the May Fourth movement?
• What enraged Indians in 1905, and how did they respond?
• Why did most Indian nationalists support World War I? What was India's role in the war? 
• What was the British parliament's declaration of 1917, and what sabotaged it?
• What did Gandhi get that the INC and the May Fourth movement missed?
• Why was the colonial government so repressive after World War I?

• What were the differences and similarities between India's and China's responses to the challenges of imperialism? (good final exam question!)