Responsible for ending opium in China; wrote a letter to Queen Victoria demanding her assistance in doing so.

Policy employed by China that discouraged foreign trade and relations.

Addictive drug many Chinese became dependent on.

Part of China taken by the British initially to be used as a place to re-supply ships.

This man sailed to Japan to deliver a letter to the shogun asking them to open trade with The United States.

Used by the Chinese government to regulate trade during the Qing dynasty.

The only currency China would do business with.

Style of dancing that the Japanese adopted from the west.

Rulers of the Qing Dynasty; not ethnically Chinese.

Ended war with Britain & opened China to trade with western Europe.

Rotating military dictator who had power in 17-19th century Japan.

To improve literacy, Japan introduced this.

Leader of the Taiping Rebellion

Values that were folded into all aspects of Chinese society such as benevolence and wisdom.

Member of the hereditary military nobility in Japan.

In Japan, this shifted from being a paid in grain to being a fixed-money payment.

Wrote encouraging Japan to modernize and was murdered shortly thereafter.

This government document returned power to the emperor in Japan and created the imperial diet.

Large hereditary landowner in Japan similar to lords in feudal Europe.

The distinctive hairstyle worn by the samurai that was removed under Meiji rule.