HILD 12 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Triple Intervention, Yokohama Specie Bank, South Manchuria Railway
Document Summary
The british, the russian, the americans, and the japanese were key players in the configuration of east asian social relations during the 1890s-wwi. Though russia and japan established territorial control over much of northeast. Asia, the british and the americans were heavily involved in the region in indirect ways. As a result of multilateral imperialist cooperation, korean, taiwanese, and. Chinese societies were transformed; they were made into debtors, raw material suppliers, and consumer markets for global capital. The 1876 kanghwa treaty turned korea into a focal point for completing imperialist interests in east asia. First time in which japan was on the giving end of an unequal treaty. What the treaty entailed: extraterritoriality to japanese subjects, if a japanese merchant in korea committed a crime, they cannot be tried by korean governments; must be tried in. Korea"s geography: a dagger pointed at the heart of japan. Metaphorical perspective, symbolism; raising arms, possible rebellion.
