Reflection on the Modern Social Reform in China & Japan

In 1640, British bourgeois revolution unrevealed the beginning of our modern history. China and Japan still lied dormant while western countries were striding largely forward with highly advanced productive forces. With shrinking space for development under the pressure from western countries, China and Japan were finally exposed to revolutions—Hundred Days Reform in China and Meiji Reformation in Japan. However, these two countries ended up differently: Japan rose quickly and stepped on the road to capitalism, while China still lagged behind with failed revolution. Many factors contributed to these two different results, namely, land ownership, political structures, cultural tradition, family possessions, increasing mode of productivity, international relationships and East Asian tributary systems. This is also the root of Japan heading toward to Bushidocapitalism and China heading toward to Communism.