6. How did the Japanese respond differently to the Westerners than the Chinese?

second difference between the Chinese and Japanese responses to the West was that Japan successfully modernized and became an industrialized power, while China failed to do so. ... China implemented Western innovations and attempted to modernize as well, starting after the suppression of the Taiping rebellion in 1864.

herodotus taught this. herodotus was an ancient greek historian who was born in halicarnassus in the persian empire. he is known for having written the book the histories, a detailed record of his "inquiry" on the origins of the greco-persian wars.