Anaylse the two roads of modernization …

1) the histories of Japan and china, alongwith the stories of Taiwan and Korea,show how different historical conditions led then on widely divergent path to building independent and modern nations. 2) Japan was successful in retaining its independence and using traditional skills and practices in new ways. 3) In the Sino-Japanese war china faced a humiliating defeat.on April 17,1895 treaty of shimonoski was signed between China and Japan ending the first Sino-Japanese wars. 4) the china become vulnerable after china defeat and declares that both china and Japan needed reforms for modernization. 5) Sino-Japanese wars served the basis for anglo-japanese alliance in 1902. 6) the Chinese path to modernisation was very different. 7) foreign imperialism both western and Japanese,combined with a hesitant and unsure Qing Dynasty to weaken Government control. 8) the 19th and 20th centuries saw a rejection of traditions and a search for ways to build national unity and strength.