What are the major differences between the Meiji Constitution and, say, the US constitution? (I mean major
differences, in terms of origins of power, rights, etc.) What did “enlightenment” mean in Korea? Was it similar to
what we mean by that term? What kind of things seems to catch the attention of the Japanese members of the
Iwakura mission? In the readings by Lin Zexu (Tse-hsü), Feng Guifen, Wei Yuan, how are the authors
describing the West? How are their observations differ from those of the members of the Iwakura mission?
Or, as an alternative, answer to one general question: what kind of Western ideas/phenomena/structures
caught the attention of Japanese, Chinese, and Korean reformers, intellectuals, and legislators? What were
they interested in? And why?
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