Naval Historywith Dr. Alex

Notable Point · 15:47-18:21

China, Japan, and Korea across centuries

A rapid chronology connects earlier Korean, Chinese, and Japanese conflicts with the expansion that continued into the Second World War.

Baekje Tang WarBoxer RebellionChinaDefence of the Great WallImjin WarJanuary 28 IncidentJapanJapanese Invasion Of ManchuriaJapanese Invasion Of Taiwan 1895Jiajing Wokou RaidsJinan IncidentKoreaMongol Invasions Of JapanSecond Sino Japanese WarWar OriginsWorld War II
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Notes

Conflict involving China, Japan, and Korea took several forms long before 1894. The survey reaches back to Japanese involvement in the Baekje-Tang War, the Mongol invasions of Japan, and the Jiajing wokou raids, whose participants included Chinese-led merchant-pirate networks and Japanese raiders. It then moves through the Imjin War and Japan's 1895 invasion of Taiwan into the Boxer Rebellion, the 1928 Jinan Incident, the seizure of Manchuria, the January 28 Incident in Shanghai, the defense of the Great Wall, and the Second Sino-Japanese War. That chronology supports the case for treating 1937 as one possible opening of the Second World War because China and Japan were already fighting on the later Allied and Axis sides.