I A STD 33 Lecture 4: EAS 1/16 LEC 4

• School: UCLA
• Department: International and Area Studies
• Course: I A STD 33
• Professor: Jung

Document Summary

1905 victory in russo-japanese war gave japan lease over kwangtung province and rights to operate the south manchuria railway. End of the gold standard after worldwide depression. Japan wanted to establish its own yen bloc. For kwantung army, economic destabilization was means to military destabilization of north china. 1933: demilitarized zone known as war zone as buffer between manchukuo and. Bank of chosen operated in north china. Bank of china, central bank, communication bank. Chinese temp gov set up as a puppet government over shansi, shantung. Japan needed to mobilize colonial resources and manpower in imperialist strategy. Taiwan annexed in 1895 at the end of sino-japanese war. Given 2 years to decide to leave or not. Oath almost like a submission to imperial japan. Attempt to stamp out indigenous religion, a hybrid of buddhism, taoism, folk belief. National language as prerequisite to being true japanese. National language families to acknowledge families to spoke only japanese at home.