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please answer these four topics.

 

1)How do we understand the Korean War in the broader regional and global contexts in the aftermath of WWII? Was the Korean War the first real contest of the Cold War between two opposing international camps, or was it in significant ways a civil conflict with deep roots in the social and political conditions in the Peninsula? The post-WWII Chinese and Korean political and military conflicts shared significant similarities, but why didn’t the Chinese Civil War of the late 1940s escalate into a wider war?

 

2)In his provocative and highly controversial article “The Case for Colonialism,” political scientist Bruce Gilley contends that colonialism was generally “both objectively beneficial and subjectively legitimate in most of the places where it was found ….. Anti-colonial ideology imposed grave harms on subject peoples and continues to thwartsustained development and a fruitful encounter with modernity in many places.” What is your response to this argument? Please draw from the East Asian historical experience to substantiate your ideas.

 

3)What social and political crises of modern China—both domestic and foreign—did the Nationalist and Communist Parties attempt to address, and what were their respective proposals? How adequate or inadequate were the solutions offered by both political movements?Why did the Nationalists and Chiang Kai-shek lose the battle, while the Communists were able to seize power and establish a new state?

 

4)Imperialism presented great challenges to various East Asian societies at critical junctures of their historical evolution. What were these challenges, and the unique historical junctures in which crises took place? How did the societies under pressure respond to challenges through reform and modernization? Why did some reform projects succeed while others failed, and what were the consequences of failures?

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