Why did the Chinese never conquer Japan? Did they fear the

Are you familiar with chinese history at all?
The answer to that is probably one of the most significant facts about chinese civilisation in terms of how it treated other peoples.

because china was already too big

Japan wasn't worth conquering.

>>3116075
Chinks saw them as literal subhumans
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wokou

>>3116075
How long till this emem blows over

China considered Japan largely irrelevant for most of their shared history, and they were fairly correct in that assessment. Japan had basically no impact on events outside their islands and inhaled Chinese culture, religion, and luxury goods like it was breathable air. They were all but officially a satellite kingdom of China, and only managed to avoid paying tribute because China didn't even give enough of a fuck to make them pay tribute. That's how irrelevant they were.

>>3116075
Why are you keeping shitposting? Is your life so meaningless already? I suspect the Roman conquerd thread, Japs nuked thread, Nanking deny thread, Nazi sympathy thread are all (you) as well.

>>3116199
And yet the Japanese invasion of Korea lead to the downfall of the Ming dynasty.

Edo Japan was also clearly more developped than Qing China.

>>3116234
>And yet the Japanese invasion of Korea lead to the downfall of the Ming dynasty.
That's really stretching it,the Imjin War was only one of three major campaigns.

The Little Ice Age and the flawed monetary system led to the death knell of the empire i.e. peasant rebellions.

>Edo Japan was also clearly more developped than Qing China.
Not until the late 18th century. Japan was a cultural,economic and military backwater when compared to mainland polities.

>>3116075
The same reason as to why roman didn't conquer Africa.

>>3116075
>>3116075
The Mongols tried but both attempts failed. The second time they couldn't even get a foothold. Japan was more an annoyance to the Chinese really. Their constant pirate raids were a source of angst.

Japan was to remote to be controlled from China for any long period anyway.

>>3117546
There was a desert?

They did conquer north Africa

>>3117818
Geographical boundaries made invasion difficult. They had to cross the Japanese sea and then fight an offensive war in rugged terrain.

>>3116075
Conquer them for what? For vanity? For anime? For muh katana? They're just backward islanders back then, and there is an wide ocean gap between them in case you haven't notice it. And do you know your precious samurai warriors were founded on Chinese culture?

Wasn't Japan a part of China or at least subject to her?

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>>3117941
Japan was a tributary state and subject of China for a period of time until late 16th century, but not part of China directly.

>>3116234
>And yet the Japanese invasion of Korea lead to the downfall of the Ming dynasty.
This is a meme propagated by Japan to make themselves feel important. Ming Chinese expenditure for the war in Korea was actually less than the war in Yunnan.

Furthermore, modern historians are beginning to question the traditional account of Wanli as the "beginning of the end." This traditional interpretation seems to have derived from the fact that Wanli was absolutely hated by the bureaucratic elite. Considering the actual events of his reign without the written interpretations by the elite, Wanli's reign actually sounds like a very dynamic and active period of Ming expansion.

Weren't Japanese pirates a real pain for the Chineese?

>>3116075
See: Kamikaze
No, not the suicide tactics used in WW2. In fact they were named after such events 700 years prior.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongol_invasions_of_Japan