World History/Changes in East Asia

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Colonialism takes root in Southeast Asia

Japan enters the Modern World

The Meiji Restoration

Industrialization in Japan

China limps along

Depiction of a British ship firing on Chinese vessels during the First Opium War.

The Qing Dynasty

Rebellion and the fall of Imperial China

Sun Yat-Sen and the Kuomindang

Chiang Kai-shek and Nationalist China

Rise of Chinese Communist Party