Eu lia uma interessante matéria sobre a guerra russo-japonesa quando me deparei com isto:
At the time, there were many more Qing students in Japan. In 1896, soon after the First Sino-Japanese War, the Qing Dynasty started dispatching students to Japan. By 1905, some 10,000 were studying on these shores.
I visited Tianjin to see Li Xisuo, a Nankai University professor who is well-versed in the situation of Qing students who came to Japan toward the end of the Qing Dynasty.
“Why did Qing lose the First Sino-Japanese War to Japan? Qing started sending students and missions to Japan to find out the answer to this question,” Li said.
The Chinese apparently thought it would be more efficient to learn from the Japanese experience than to study modern Western thoughts and systems from scratch. Another more realistic reason is that it cost less to travel to Japan than to Europe and North America. The abolition of the imperial examination system in 1905 also led to the idea that Japan would serve as a new place of learning, according to Li.
Não é bacana como pessoas pensam em Economia mesmo que não sejam economistas e descartam argumentos vagos?
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