Lucianna Balica
China was among the countries that confronted an aggressive and industrialized West while maintaining its formal independence. Many rival countries in Europe were out to get China. China had an immense military and political ambitions, they became enmeshed in networks of trade, investment, and sometimes migration that arose from an industrializing and capitalist economy. Chinese authorities had strictly controlled and limited the activities of European missionaries and merchants. But by 1912 China's long establishing imperial state had collapse and the country had been transformed from a central presence in the economy to a weak and dependent participant in a European dominated world system, which was great Britain. The uprising of the Taiping revolution movement demonstrated ambivalence about equality for women. After a few civil wars China was no longer the center of civilization to which barbarians paid tribute, it was just a weak and dependent nation . The Qing dynasty remained in power but in a weakened condition. Chinese business men mostly served foreign firms, rather than developing as an independent capitalist class capable of leading China's own industrial revolution.
Economically, the Ottoman and Arab lands in Afroeurasia commerce diminished as Europeans achieved direct oceanic access to the treasures of Asia. In 1876 Ottomans experienced a short lived victory when the they accepted a consitiution and an elected parliament, but not for long. I don't understand the Menji restoration, what did it mean? (*read more on it) Japan was brought into the picture of modernization and how it began civilization and enlightenment. Most of Japan's workers during the industrial relovution lived in factory-provided dormitories, many committed suicide because many worked long hours and were paid unfair wages.
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