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Modern East Asia Ch8
Modern East Asia - Chapter 8
Question | Answer |
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The rejection of Japan’s proposed “_____ _____ _____,” plus heightened discrimination against Asians in North America, reminded East Asian people that they remained, in European and American eyes, racially inferior and irremediably alien. | Racial equality clause |
_____ could function as a unifying ideology—as it did on March 1 and May 4, 1919—but it also created conditions for division and conflict. | Nationalism |
The Russian Revolution of 1917, and the founding of the Comintern to encourage world revolution, broadcast the utopian vision of _____ and the inevitability of _____ struggle | Socialism; Class |
By 1925, Japan, China, and Korea all had Communist parties, though _____ repression prevented any effective organization in the Korean colony | Japanese |
In the 1920s, East Asian nationalists thus had to choose whether to support _____, moderate nationalist movements, or left -wing movements, including the Communist parties and Wang Jingwei’s left wing of the GMD. | Militarists |
Japanese, Chinese, and Korean students met at _____ schools and universities, where they were all exposed to both conservative and radical political ideas and had to choose how to use their hard-won educations in their own societies | Japanese |
Korea’s Sin’ganhoe attempted to bridge the political gaps but failed under _____ repression and internal _____. | Police; strife |
Korean and Chinese _____, observing Japan’s apparent unity and strength of purpose in the world, attempted to build those same qualities at home | Nationalists |
Hu Shi advocated the _____ as the language of the Chinese nation; and under the Cultural Policy after 1920, Koreans of all political persuasions could unite in research and standardization of their native Korean. | Vernacular |
After studying in Japan, Lu Xun wrote modern stories attacking _____ tradition, while Yi Kwangsu’s groundbreaking modern novels introduced Koreans to _____. and free choice as essential personal qualities | Chinese; individualism |
In both China and Korea, modern ideas—translated or adapted from Europe and America—arrived initially as translations from the _____. | Japanese |
An indirect economic connection among the three societies lay in their rising rates of rural _____. | Tenancy |
Although parts of China did not experience it, this phenomenon was widespread enough that observers noted immiseration of the peasantry and concentration of landholdings as characteristic of _____-_____ agricultural systems in general. | Rice-growing |
In Japan, _____ strengthened the left -wing movement and encouraged colonial emigration, but later, in the 1930s, it also provided fodder for military conscription, the rural army recruits who obediently expanded and defended the empire. | Tenancy |
Korean tenant farmers might flee to Manchuria, but they could also join the _____ police force, an important means of upward mobility as well as repression. | Imperial |
Guangdong tenant farmers might have joined Peng Pai’s Peasant Association, but they could also have been caught up in _____ conscription | Warlord |
In all three cultures, tenant farmers’ daughters & sons made up a significant part of the new industrial labor force, moving to cities to work for wages, perhaps joining a _____, &certainly experiencing a totally different rhythm of life. | union |
Th e 1920s brought a new wave of modernity to the cities of East Asia, with its icons of daring and innovation—the Modern Girl and Modern Boy, the New Woman, the movie star, and the international _____. | Businessman |
Shanghai and Tokyo became the emblems of shocking, experimental cultures, where Coney Island coexisted with Confucius, while repressed _____ only slowly became a cosmopolitan modern city. | Seoul/Keijō |
At the same time, all three cultures remained overwhelmingly _____, and the trendy elites knew that they represented only a tiny minority. | Agricultural |
The 1929 stockmarket crash and Great Depression affected all three societies by eliminating their _____ markets, weakening their currencies, and throwing them back on their _____ resources. | Overseas; own |