Western Imperialism and Modern East Asia

Western imperialism in East Asia brought many difficulties to China, Japan, and South Korea, but it also helped them to become modern countries. East Asian countries are greatly affected by inequal treaties, extraterritorial jurisdiction and the most important technologies. The British invaded China and they rushed to trade with the Chinese empire in a hurry, which brought about the deterioration of Chinese culture and brought the emergence of modern civilization. Japan, Russia and the United States conquered jointly, the trade routes of these Western countries could be expanded to the east, thereby establishing the foundation of modern East Asian industrialization.

Empire and colony: The history of modern Korea and East Asia is fundamentally influenced by the empire's experience. Since the early nineteenth century, the influence of Western imperialism has changed the trajectory of East Asian politics, becoming an important element to deepen society in China, Korea and Japan. It causes various reactions where social actors work under the pressure of empire order, but they can also use it as a resource of their own claim. At the same time East Asia was hidden as an "anti-imperialism" in ideology, but became a place of expansion of Japanese colonial period based on asymmetry of control, cultural hegemony and economic exploitation. Amidst these competitive colonialism structures, how do we ask the modern experience of Korea and East Asia?

The Asian Western imperialism described in this article involves entering what Western Europe originally called East India. This was brought about by searching Chinese trade routes that led to the discovery of a direct era in the early 15th century and the introduction of the early modern war into the so called Far East. By the beginning of the sixteenth century, the sailing era greatly expanded the influence and development of Western Europe on spice trade under colonialism. Through the colonial sixth century Western European colonial empire and imperialism always existed in Europe. And I finally officially ended the independence of East Timor, the last colony of the Portuguese Empire in 2002. The Empire introduced the Western concept of state and multiethnic country. This paper attempts to outline the follow-up development of the Western nation-state concept

It is Western imperialism that changes this situation. In the 19th century, the United Kingdom, the United States, France followed by Russia, Germany and other Western countries followed by a series of "inequal treaties", reluctant East Asian trade and religion to Western Asia We actively "pioneer" the mission. . The unique way for China, Japan, Korea to respond to this Western challenge will have a great impact on their personal and collective future. China despises the "barbarians" of the West and is fully confident in his own moral and cultural advantages. It is trying to withdraw imperialists with a small concession. Self is to "strengthen the system." China misunderstood that the power and determination of the West lead to the complete collapse of the Qing Dynasty in 1911, which makes the country turmoil and susceptible to attack by external predators.