History of China Essay Examples

The issue and ethics surrounding whether the US is justifiable for dropping the bomb on Japan is a controversial and sensitive topic. Some believe Japan deserved to be bombed after what they did to the US in world war 2, but others believe the US...

Ever since the birth of the nuclear age, the world has been haunted by the excruciating pain and immeasurable devastation that the people in Hiroshima and Nagasaki were forced to endure. This was caused by the first atomic bomb being dropped by the US Airforce...

 Little Boy, a nuclear bomb created in 1945, was sent to detonate in Hiroshima, Japan. Setting off a powerful amount of radiation across Hiroshima, killing hundreds of people within days. Those who were fortunate enough to live we’re fortunate to live but was left with...

The detonation of the atomic bomb over Japanese city Hiroshima took place at morning around half past 8 am, in August 6, 1945 by US bomber Enola Gay, near the end of the World War ll. This horrific casualty was done by United States of...

The poet, Emperor Yangi once stated during an invasion of the Great Wall of China, “Desolately the wind rises. We march thousands of miles over vast distances. Why do we cross the deserts? To build the Great Wall.” The Great Wall of China is one...

In the confucian world of western expansion, Japan, as a long-time learner and practitioner of Chinese culture, has been surprisingly different in its response to western challenges than China. So that the famous historian Zhengqing Fei said of this point: “historians who understand the true...

In 1931 Japan invaded China as they wanted to conquer new land because of a policy they created called the expansionist policy as they needed more resources. This policy was to conquer Great East Asia to build an economic zone. Because of this the League...

Imagine living almost 300 years ago in Shogunate Japan. Learning the ways of the samurai until your whole life changes. You lose your way of life. Your values. Your beliefs. Your way of fighting. Who is there to save you? In this essay I will...

The isolationist rule of the Tokugawa shogunate was pivotal in the social and moral development of Japanese society. The Neo-Confucian principles that were popularised by the Shogunate became the ‘rationalising’ force which shifted Japan from an “ascetic and religious culture to a secular and bureaucratic...

As the last imperial empire in China, the Qing dynasty is recognized for its long-lasting prosperity leading up to the Opium War. Our understanding of the Qing dynasty cannot be fully attained without mentioning the nature of the Ming Dynasty leading up to its ultimate...