Asian History Essays and Term Papers

and eighteenth centuries, European nations flourished. They gained control over a majority of the Western Hemisphere. From 1880 and 1914, Western powers set out to gain power in many places such as Asia, India, Africa, and the Pacific. The western…

south of china. In the 19th century it was first a colony of France, but later in WWII Japan occupied the piece of land. After WWII French tries taking Indo China, war broke out because people in Indo China want their country to be independence. Indo…

of the Zhou conquering the Shang and proclaiming a mandate of heaven. The Zhou justified their conquest by citing the moral depravity and excesses of the last Shang King. They set up a network of kin relationship (zongfai) in various regions, which forme…

and psychologically spelled doom for Japan. "By the end of the Pacific War the volume of Japan's industrial production was less than thirty per cent of her output in 1936.". "Tokyo was literally three quarters flattened. The Japanese Navy…

numerous war events including The Korean War stated that, "[t]here is no evidence that China played a significant role in the North Korean decision to go to war. ". This paper will clash with Max Hastings' scholarly statement because the Chinese…

from Stanford University in 1976 and his Ph. D. from Stanford University in 1987. His journal references include International Philosophical Quarterly, The Journal of Religious Ethics, Journal of the American Academy of Religions, Philosophy East…

short story was "The Life of Buddha" by K.E. Sullivan. Folklore is a term for the verbal, spiritual, and material aspects of any culture that are transmitted orally, by observation, or by imitation. People sharing a culture may have in common an occupat…

century, control of China's massive size became an increasingly difficult task for it's monarchial government to undertake. Western conflict spurred exponential increases in political philosophy and technological advancement, while China's peasant…

military and government to the point where they were able to compete with the west, while the rest of Asia lagged behind was due to the fact that they were flexible. They realized that in order to become more powerful than the west they needed…

ruled from 1533- 1584, the longest reign in Russian history (Carmichael, 41). His nickname "grozny" in Russian actually means "the awesome" not "the terrible" (Milner- Gulland, 65). Ivan IV was the grandson of Ivan the Great, and the son of…