CHAPTER 16
THE EAST ASIAN WORLD
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CHAPTER OUTLINE
<SPACER TYPE="HORIZONTAL" SIZE="36"</SPACER>I.China at Its Apex
<SPACER TYPE="HORIZONTAL" SIZE="72"</SPACER>A.From the Ming to the Qing
<SPACER TYPE="HORIZONTAL" SIZE="72"</SPACER>1. First Contacts with the West
2. The Ming Brought to Earth
B. The Greatness of the Qing
1. The Reign of Kangxi
2. The Reign of Qianlong
3. Qing Politics
4. China on the Eve of the Western Onslaught
II. Changing China
A. The Population Explosion
B. Seeds of Industrialization
C.Daily Life in Qing China
1.The Family<SPACER TYPE="HORIZONTAL" SIZE="72"</SPACER>
2. The Role of Women
D.Cultural Developments
1. The Rise of the Chinese Novel
2. The Art of the Ming and the Qing
<SPACER TYPE="HORIZONTAL" SIZE="36"</SPACER>III.Tokugawa Japan
<SPACER TYPE="HORIZONTAL" SIZE="72"</SPACER>A.The Three Great Unifiers
<SPACER TYPE="HORIZONTAL" SIZE="72"</SPACER>B.Opening to the West
1.The Christians Are Expelled
<SPACER TYPE="HORIZONTAL" SIZE="72"</SPACER>C.The Tokugawa “Great Peace”
<SPACER TYPE="HORIZONTAL" SIZE="72"</SPACER>1.Seeds of Capitalism
2. Land Problems
<SPACER TYPE="HORIZONTAL" SIZE="72"</SPACER>D.Life in the Village
1.The Role of Women
<SPACER TYPE="HORIZONTAL" SIZE="72"</SPACER>E.Tokugawa Culture
<SPACER TYPE="HORIZONTAL" SIZE="36"</SPACER>1. The Literature of the New Middle Class
2. Tokugawa Art
IV.Korea: The Hermit Kingdom
<SPACER TYPE="HORIZONTAL" SIZE="36"</SPACER>V.Conclusion
IDENTIFICATIONS
1.Ming/“Bright” Dynasty
2.Zhu Yuanzhang/Ming Hongwu
3. “younger brothers”
4. Portuguese and Macao
5. Jesuits in China
6. Matteo Ricci
7. the Great Wall
8.Li Zicheng
9.Manchus/Jurchen
10.Qing/“Pure” Dynasty
11. the queue
12.Kangxi
13. Yongzheng
14.Qianlong
15. White Lotus Rebellion
16. dyarchy
17.“sacred edict”
18.“bannermen”
19.Treaty of Nerchinsk
20.Canton and the East India Company
21. tea and silk
22.Lord Macartney
23. kowtow
24. maize, sweet potato, and peanuts
25.joint family
26. The Dream of the Red Chamber
27.the “Forbidden City”
28.blue-and-white porcelain
29.Oda Nobunaga
30.Toyotomi Hideyoshi
31.Tokugawa Ieyasu
32. Tokugawa shogunate
33. daimyo
34.Francis Xavier
35. “the land of the Gods”
36. Deshima Island/Nagasaki
37.“Great Peace”
38. han
39. Edo and Kyoto
40.“hostage system”
41.ronin
42. bakufu
43. eta
44.Saikaku’s Five Women Who Loved Me
45.Kabuki and No
46.Basho
47. “Dutch learning”
48.woodblock prints
49.Utamaro and Hokusai
50. the “floating world”
51.Yi Song Gye
52. the Hermit Kingdom
53. Seoul
54.yangban
55.chonmin
56.hangul
1. Were the potential gains of the overseas extension of Chinese presence undertaken under Emperor
Yongle equivalent to the expansion of overland, or Silk Road links during the Tang Dynasty? Why or why not?
2.How, and why, was the Ming Dynasty followed by a nonChinese dynasty so soon after the Yuan? Was
it again a situation in which Chinese disunity proved fatal? Why?
3.What were the most significant developments of the reigns of Kangxi, Yongzheng, and Qianlong?
4.What were the internal and external pressures that bore on the Qing rulers as China began to experience
closer contact with the West? How effective were their responses in both the long and short term, and
why?
5.How did domestic change manifest itself in Qing China, particularly in terms of demographic growth
and industrial development?
6.How, and to what degree, was family life changed during the Qing Dynasty, particularly in relation to
the lives of women and children?
7.Compare and contrast the literary, dramatic, and artistic contributions of Qing China.
8.Describe the methods by which the “three great unifiers” established Japanese unity. Did they have
similar goals? Was Tokugawa most successful “just” because he was the last?
9.Would Europeans have made a greater, faster and more favorable impression in East Asia if they had
confined themselves to trade and not become involved in religious, and often political, activities there?
10.How did the Tokugawa “Great Peace” work? How “new” was it really? Why?
11.How did capitalism begin to manifest itself in Japan? Did it have rural as well as urban dimensions?
Why and how, or why not?
12.How did the roles of women and the nature of the family evolve during the Tokugawa period? Did
they change to the same extent? Why or why not?
13.What were the most significant cultural and socioeconomic developments that occurred in Japan
during the Tokugawa shogunate?
14.Was Japan, after the expulsion of foreigners, actually more of a “Hermit Kingdom” than Korea? Why
or why not?
15. Compare and contrast the influence of traditional Confucianism in China, Japan, and Korea during the
period from 1500 to 1800. Where were Confucian ideas and beliefs most firmly entrenched and why?
Was traditional Confucianism an aid or a hindrance to the three societies?