英语期末论文-对中日关系的简要回顾和可能的前景展望Word文档格式.doc

1、A Brief Review on and Possible Prospects of Sino-Japanese Relations#Most Chinese hold a quite complex attitude towards Japan. Being neighboring counties for centuries, China and Japan share a lot in culture, history and customs. To a certain degree, the Japanese culture has been a reflection of Chin

2、ese culture, in which Chinese can always easily find something they are familiar with. Its natural for Chinese to show a favor towards Japan if it were not for the sake of invasion. But the fact is that in many cases, hostility exists between Japanese and Chinese. For the ancient times these two cou

3、ntries were friends, but things have changed a lot ever since the First Sino-Japanese war of 1894. The long-term hostility remains even after the World War is ended. What has made Chinese unbearable is the tough tone Japanese takes toward invasion. Most of the Japanese leaders shows no regret and in

4、sists there is nothing wrong with the invasion, and try to teach their next generation to believe so, which makes Japan to be a potential threat to China:# if necessary, Japan can start another invasion against China, since they find no moral defects with invasion. In order to understand Chinese peo

5、ples feelings better and make a prediction about the prospects of Sino-Japanese relations, its necessary to have a brief review on the past.#The ancient times:#The contacts between China and Japan can be dated back to as early as Qin Dynasty, when the Taoist named Xu Fu was sent oversea to Japan by

6、Emperor to seek for medicine of immortality. According to the folks tales, Xu Fu found it impossible to fulfill his task, and in order to avoid the punishment, he determined to settle down in Japan with several hundreds of boys and girls he had taken to follow him. And with days went by, they marrie

7、d the local people and gave birth to offspring. On the other hand, during the third century, Chinese travelers reported that inhabitants of Japan claimed ancestry from Wu Taibo, a king of the Wu state （located in modern Jiangsu and Zhejiang） during the Warring States era. Perhaps those partly explai

8、ned why during early times, Chinese tended to be friendly with Japanesethey thought Japanese were more or less of the same origin as theirs.#The contacts had been smooth since then, and had reach its peak during the Sui Dynasty and Tang Dynasty, at which time Chinese cultural details such as Chinese

9、 clothing, architecture, martial arts, social manner, etc were spread to Japan. The major parts of Japanese culture such as Kimono, Judo, Ikebana have been developed from all these above. And Kyoto, the capital city of Japan at that time, was planned according to Feng Shui elements from the Chinese

10、capital of Chang#an. Meanwhile, the Chinese Monk Jian Zhen sailed across the sea and brought the Buddhism together with tea to Japan （tea had been the drink for monks at the very beginning, partly explained why tea is always associated with Zen in Japan）, while the Japanese students who had studied

11、in Changan （the capital of China at that time） spread the Confucianism in Japan. By the time of Heian period, together with Shinto, Buddhism had become one of the two major religions in Japan. And for rather a long time, Japanese had no way to record what they said until they adopted the ancient Chi

12、nese characters to create their own language. And in order to deny the correlation with China and distinguish itself, Japan carried out a language reform and eliminated many Chinese characters, but due to the impossibility of removing all Chinese influence on its language, there remained to be thous

13、ands of Chinese characters and phrases in Japanese. Therefore, to a great degree, Chinese culture has influenced the Japanese culture.#But soon the turning-point of Sino-Japanese relations arrived as the Japanese pirates （called “Wokou” in Chinese） began to rob Chinese ships and slaughter innocent C

14、hinese villagers living near the sea, especially frequently from 14th to 16th century. The barbaric deed aroused the prevalent hatred of Chinese people towards Japanese, and for a time, the Ming government dominating China at that time had to found a series of coastal forts and special troops to pro

15、tect its people and the folk tales of “Qi Jia” Army have been widespread since then, mainly telling the stories about the General Qi Jiguang, who had been fighting against “Wokou” all his life. Later on, because one of the Japanese rulers Hideyoshi decided to invade China through Korea, two warfares

16、 broke out between Japan and Sino-Korean alliance, which ended up with the failure of Japan but meanwhile drained Ming China#s treasury and left it weak against the Manchus, who eventually destroyed the Ming Dynasty and created the Qing Dynasty in 1644.The gap between two countries had formed thereafter. And the Japanese piracy also lead to another more severe result:# in order to get rid of the pirates, the Ming Dynasty adopted a policy of isolation since then and cut off its com