Paths to Modernization

1. What were the major developments before the Meiji restoration that made it possible for Japan to modernize rapidly?

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2. Discuss how daily life was transformed as Japan developed.
3. How did the Qing dynasty try and meet the challenge posed by the Western powers?
4. What were Sun Yat-Sen’s three principles?
5. Did Japan’s policy of rapid industrialization lead to wars with its neighbors and destruction of the environment?
6. Do you think that Mao Zedong and the Communist Party of China were successful in Liberating China and laying the basis for its current success?
7. The term “East Asia” refers to which countries.
8. What is the basis for the modernization of Japan?
9. Give a note on the leading Japanese scholar of China “Naito Konan”and his writings.
10. What are the main rivers of China?
11. What are the main ethnic groups of china?
12. Give a note the Chinese food.
13. Give a note on staple food in China.
14. Give a note on staple food in China.
15. Give a note on the geography of China.
16. Write the tale of the Genji of china.
17. What do you mean by the Meiji Restoration? Write a brief note on it.
18. What do you mean by Japanese kanji?
19. What do you mean by Hiragana in Japanese language?
20. What do you mean by katakana in Japanese language?
21. Give a note on black ships in Japanese terminology.
22. Contrast the encounter of the Japanese and the Aztecs with the Europeans.
23. Give a detailed note on Nishijin of Japan.
24. What were the steps taken by the Japanese to modernize their economy?
25. What do you mean by the aggressive nationalism? In Japan how it was brought out?
26. Write a note on Tanaka Shozo (1841-1913) the self taught son of a farmer in Japan.