primary source asian imperialism

letter from emporer Quianlong to king George 111

• first person (you, I)

• a refusal to trade w British - china superiority

letter from commissioner Lin Zaxu to queen Victoria

• first person

• wrote in response to growing opium trade

  • urging peaceful resolution to opium trade

Exerpts from the treaty of Nanjing

• third person

• about what Chinese is agreeing to give British

song of yearning

• 3rd person

• poem

  • castle something

excerpts from shinron

• 3rd person

• western colonies oppose threat to japan

  • japan needs to strengthen defenses

letter from emporer Meiji

• 1st person

• japan’s desire to reform institutions and civilizations to attain equality w the most enlightened nations through gradual adoption of foreign parties

letter from us president Millard fillmore to emporer of japan

• first person

• USA eager to break japan’s “seclusion policy” and sign diplomatic and commercial treaties and open the nation to western world