Regional Outline for East Asia (China, Japan, Koreas ...



|8000 – 600 CE |600 – 1450 CE |1450-1750 CE |1750 – 1914 CE |1914 - Present | |

|Politics |Dynasties with emperors- mandate of |Japan borrowed from China |Fall of Ming from internal/external -|Abdication of Qing, unification of |Decolonization from Europe Nominally |

| |heaven |Increased bureaucracy |Manchu |China |democratic |

| |Start of bureaucracy/meritocracy |Tributary system |Japan: Warring States Period to |Fight for control with Mao |Tensions- China and West |

| | |Constant threat from North |Tokogawa Shogunate |Japan: abolishes feudalism, Civil |USSR/China split |

| | |Prince Shotoku then daimyos |Centralized rule |code, regional govs |Birth of Chinese Republic |

| | | | |Nationalism = huge force |Japan: parliamentary capitalism |

|Economy |Lots of money flowing in from Silk |Paper money |China: trade with Europeans in Qing |Provide labor for plantations/mines |Modernization of Japan, Taiwan, South|

| |Roads |Credit or “flying money” | |Meiji Restoration- quickly |Korea |

| |Otherwise agricultural |High taxes cause peasant revolts |Japan: manufacturing, merchant class |industrialized in Japan |Post- industrial/high-tech |

| | |Serfs bound to land |get wealth and power , urbanization, | |Less affected by global depression |

| | | |population growth | |Need natural resources |

|Social Class/Gender |Patriarchal |Code of Bushido- chivalry |Foreigners allowed in China |Rigid Tokogawa hierarchy ended |Slow to embrace/tolerate diversity |

| |Confucian principles |Women lost freedom in Japan |Manchus higher than Chinese |Middle class grows power |and individualism |

| |Women only power in court | |Japan: hierarchy becomes unbreakable,|Lower classes- horrible conditions, |High degree/variety social services |

| |Scholars/officials ( military ( | |samurai at top |taxed a lot |Rise of feminism- suffrage |

| |artisans | |lower class women more free – upper | |Women went worked WWII |

| |Few live in cities | |obey or die | |Foot binding outlawed |

|Science/Inventions |Iron Age |Gunpowder for military |Gunpowder more prevalent |British introduced opium to China |Atomic bombs |

| |Modernized army |Boasts = junks |Globalization of trade |Westernization of Japan |Nuclear weaponry |

| |Paper, accurate sundials/calendars, |Navigation/block printing | |- steamships/railroads |Militarism in Japan |

| |agriculture improvements (plow) |Iron production | |Communication revolution |Computer, internet, biotechnology and|

| | |Agriculture technique ( population ( | | |genetic science |

| | |cities | | | |

|Art/Architecture |Brush painting |Infrastructure (roads, inns, postal |Japan: kabuki theatre replaces |Artistic styles change more rapidly |Theme for lit- resisting US |

| |Palaces |stations) |restrained drama, |and radically than ever before |New style= cubism |

| | |Japan: haiku, pencil sketches, ink |Woodblock prints = art form, borrowed| |Movie industry |

| | |sketches, Noh drama, tea ceremony |Korean ceramics and western oil | |Use of concrete and glass |

| | | |painting | |New skepticism |

|Empire |Collapse of empires in China from |Mongol empires – conquer China, but |Japan empire centralized |The fall of China – opium wars, |Japan- WWII- invades Manchuria, |

| |internal problems – economic |fail in Japan ( replaced by Ottoman |Fall of the Manchu empire |internal rebellions, external lasses,|China, Siberia – taking over |

| |depression, natural catastrophe, |Turks and Ju Yuanzahng of Ming |Interaction with west = China – |Boxer Rebellion |Southeast Asia, |

| |social unrest |dynasty |relatively isolated, Japan- periods |Japanese imperialism- Taiwan, Korea, |Bomb Pearl Harbor – brings US into |

| | | |of isolation and acceptance |Russia |war ( atomic bomb ( US occupies Japan|

|Religion |Polytheism, animism ancestor worship|Buddhist missionaries |New sects of Buddhism from China to |Scientific/secular world becomes |Religious fundamentalism |

| | |Shinto religion |Japan |dominant |Western appreciation for science |

| |Confucianism, Legalism |Influenced by monotheistic religions |Neo- Confucianism increase | |spread |

| |Daoism, also spread of Buddhism from|Neo- Confucian thought |(ethnocentric, historicism, | | |

| |India | |rationalism) | | |

................
................

In order to avoid copyright disputes, this page is only a partial summary.

Google Online Preview   Download