Japan saw that they needed the help of the West to become more modernized in order to become a world power; they successfully accomplished this and became an industrialized power. Japan started changing and adapting even more; feudalism was dissolved, new taxations and currency systems were chosen, and Western institutions like banks and railways, were built. (Storry, 1960). China made attempts to become more modernized; they even tried to achieve Western development. The down fall was that they were unwilling to adapt or change traditions and ways of thinking. When Western innovations were made available, it didn’t change Chinese life, in fact it only changed a small part of the population. Rulers were to blame for failing to understand that the accomplishments of Western civilization were due to the deep structural changes that had to be
Japan saw that they needed the help of the West to become more modernized in order to become a world power; they successfully accomplished this and became an industrialized power. Japan started changing and adapting even more; feudalism was dissolved, new taxations and currency systems were chosen, and Western institutions like banks and railways, were built. (Storry, 1960). China made attempts to become more modernized; they even tried to achieve Western development. The down fall was that they were unwilling to adapt or change traditions and ways of thinking. When Western innovations were made available, it didn’t change Chinese life, in fact it only changed a small part of the population. Rulers were to blame for failing to understand that the accomplishments of Western civilization were due to the deep structural changes that had to be