... best precarious and at worst desperate for most Chinese peasants. Rebellions thus became common, the most notable of these being the Taiping Rebellion of 1847-64. By the late nineteenth century, foreign powers had massively increased their presence and control in China. They controlled China's tariffs, had carved out many territorial concessions, had forced extraterritoriality on China and had taken ... The urban areas were not free of problems with rice riots occurring periodically. Japan shared China's distrust of the West. As Western interest began to increase in the sixteenth and sev...

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... their lives. Although a warrior class had existed for hundreds of years in Japanese society, the samurai did not emerge until the twelfth century C.E. (Hall, 8). The word samurai was derived from the word saburai, meaning "to serve. " The first mention of the term was seen sometime in ... the eighth century, but in reference to servants (Turnbull, 16). Although royalty lived lavishly, there were warlords and rebels always challenging their authority and causing a ... serious. The warrior was expected to dedicate his life to the service of the lord in return for certain rewards. Towards ...

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... Japan today must learn that the United States and Japan have fundamentally different understandings of the purposes and workings of a national economy. While the United States embraces Adam Smith, the seventeenth-century prophet of free trade, and has concentrated on consumption as the main economic engine, Japan has focused on production and dominance of key industries that will enhance its strategic position ... ...

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... to prove that she did not want this "sex" forced upon her and had to be physically damaged (torn, bruised, beaten, etc.) in addition to being raped. In the mid-seventeenth century, the idea of "a woman scorned" was introduced into English common law. The myth of the woman who is rejected by a man and then seeks revenge by falsely accusing him of ... ...

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