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What do you mean by Path of Modernisation???❓ |
| Answer» \tThe histories of Japan and China show how different historical conditions led them on widely divergent paths to building independent and modern nations.\tJapan was successful in retaining its independence and using traditional skills and practices in new ways.\tIn the Sino-Japanese War (1894-95) China faced a humiliating defeat.\xa0On 17 April 1895, Treaty of Shimonseki was signed between China and Japan,\xa0ending the First Sino-Japanese War.\tThe Chinese became vulnerable after their defeat and declared that both China and Japan needed reforms for modernisation.\tSino-Japanese war served the basis for the Anglo-Japanese alliance in 1902.\tThe Chinese path to modernisation was very different.\tForeign imperialism, both Western and Japanese, combined with a hesitant and unsure Qing dynasty to weaken government control.\tThe nineteenth and twentieth centuries saw a rejection of traditions and a search for ways to build national unity and strength. | |