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Global Studies 10 - Imperialism in China and Japan (Hurd)

China
Qing or Ch'ing Dynasty 1681-1792
The Treaty of Nanking - 1842
The Opium Wars and the Unequal Treaties 1839-1842
The Taiping Rebellion - 1851-1864
The Boxer Rebellion - 1900

Japan
The Meiji Restoration - 1868-1912
The Tokugawa Shogunate

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China - Qing or Ch'ing Dynasty 1681-1792

The Treaty of Nanking - 1842

Treaty of Nanking, 1842
http://web.jjay.cuny.edu/~jobrien/reference/ob24.html
Full text of the Treaty of Nanking

Treaty of Nanking
http://www.artasialink.com/pages/histpage.htm
Images and interpretations of the Treaty of Nanking

The Opium Wars and the Unequal Treaties 1839-1842

The Opium Wars
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/CHING/OPIUM.HTM

Opium Wars, an Encarta Encyclopedia Article Titled "Opium Wars"
http://encarta.msn.com/index/conciseindex/08/0088D000.htm

The Opium Wars
http://www.mrdowling.com/613-opiumwars.html

The Taiping Rebellion - 1851-1864

Chinese Cultural Studies: The Taiping Rebellion, 1851-1864

The Taipang Rebellion
http://www.mrdowling.com/613-taiping.html

The Taiping Rebellion
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/CHING/TAIPING.HTM

Modern History Sourcebook: The Taiping Rebellion, 1851-1864
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/taiping.html

The Boxer Rebellion - 1900

Boxer Rebellion
http://www.smplanet.com/imperialism/fists.html

Boxer Rebellion
http://www.mrdowling.com/613-boxer.html

Modern History Sourcebook: Fei Ch'i-hao: The Boxer Rebellion, 1900
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1900Fei-boxers.html

Ch'ing China: The Boxer Rebellion
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/CHING/BOXER.HTM

Japan - The Meiji Restoration - 1868-1912

Meiji Period - 1868-1912
http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2130.html

Meiji Restoration - The Significance of the Meiji Restoration in Japanese Society
http://www.wsu.edu/~gordonl/ESL/asako_sasaki.html

Emperor Meiji
http://www.ox.compsoc.net/~gemini/simons/historyweb/meiji-emperor.html

The Tokugawa Shogunate

The Meiji Restoration: Background - Decline of the Tokugawa Shogunate
http://www.thecorner.org/hists/japan/meiji1.htm

History of Japan
http://jin.jcic.or.jp/today/intro/intro_3.html
Look about half way down the page

Ieyasu, Founder of the Tokugawa Shogunate
http://www.jgc.co.jp/waza/a1_nara/todaij05.htm

Japanese History: Edo Period - The Tokugawa Shoguns
http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2128.html

The Birth of the Tokugawa Shogunate and Another Reconstruction
http://www.jgc.co.jp/waza/a1_nara/todaij05.htm

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