sentences:  In Asia, The Great Game, which lasted from 1813 to 1907, opposed the British Empire against Imperial Russia for supremacy in central Asia.China was opened to Western influence starting with the First and Second Opium Wars (1839–1842; 1856–1860).After the visits of Commodore Matthew Perry in 1852–1854, Japan opened itself to the Western world during the Meiji period (1868–1912).