Revision+Questions

Paper 3 Asia-Oceania Questions. 3. Analyse the causes and consequences of the Taiping (Taip’ing) Rebellion in China. 4. Examine whether the isolation of Tokugawa Japan caused internal changes that weakened the Shogunate’s rule in the period from the late-eighteenth century to the mid-nineteenth century. 7. Why did Japan annex Korea in 1910? 8. Compare and contrast the Self-Strengthening Movement in China (1861–1894) and the reforms under the Meiji Restoration in Japan (1868–1894). 10. Examine the impact of the Japanese occupation on ** either ** Korea ** or ** China between 1910 and 1945. 11. To what extent was the May Fourth Movement (1919) significant in determining the future of China? 12. To what extent did Jiang Jieshi’s (Chiang Kai-shek’s) government address the problems facing China in the period between 1927 and 1937? 13. Evaluate the claim that the rise of militarism and nationalism in Japan in the early 1930s was essentially a reaction against Western influence and modernization. 14. Assess the reasons for the breakdown of relations between Japan and the United States in the late 1930s that eventually resulted in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.
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3. Compare and contrast the ways in which imperial China and Japan responded to the challenges posed by the arrival of Western powers in the early to mid-nineteenth century. 4. Analyse the reasons for the Taiping (Taip’ing) Rebellion’s initial successes and eventual failure.

7. "The Meiji Restoration (1868) was not just a political change, but a real cultural revolution." To what extent do you agree with this statement? 8. Discuss the consequences for the region of **either** the Sino–Japanese War (1894–1895) **or** the Russo–Japanese War (1904–1905). 11. Analyse the factors that led to the rise of warlordism in China in the period from 1911 to 1926. 12. "The Nationalists failed to attend to China’s urgent problems." Examine the nature of these problems between 1926 and 1937. To what extent do you agree that these failures led to the eventual downfall of the Nationalists? 13. Examine the circumstances behind the Japanese decision to enter into the First World War and assess the consequences for Japan and other countries in the region. 14. Why did Japan fail to establish a democratic system of parliamentary government in the period from 1918 to 1931?