East Asian History: 1300-1853 Honors Vocabulary List

Lectures

Pre-modern Chinese Politics

Why Japan? (Why did it manage to industrialize and no other non-European, non-North American nation did?)

Assignments

Due Monday 11/2 - China and Population Demographics Worksheet

Due Monday 11/2 - 5 Questions on the Chinese Politics Reading.

Due Tuesday or Wednesday 11/3 or 11/4 - Worksheet on "The Mongol and Ming Empires"

Due Wednesday or Thursday 11/4 or 11/5 - Map of East Asia - ID
Rivers: Huang He, Chang, Mekong, Ganges, Irrawaddy, Ganges
Nations: China, Japan, North Korea, South Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia (x2), Indonesia, Mongolia, Russia, Burma, Nepal, Bangladesh, India, Laos, Sri Lanka Philippines, Taiwan
Cities (dotted): Seoul, Tokyo, T’aipei, Manila, Jakarta, Hanoi, Phnom Penh, Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City), Calcutta, Madras (Chennai), Delhi, Xi’an, Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Guangzhou

Due Friday 11/6 - Film Questions for part two of "Japan: Memoirs of a Secret Empire"

Due Friday 11/6 - Extra Credit (half points) - Buy one of the following grammar books:
1. The Bedford Handbook by Diana Hacker
2. A Pocket Style Manual (Spiral-bound) by Diana Hacker

Due Tuesday 11/10 - Film Questions for part three of "Japan: Memoirs of a Secret Empire"

Due Thursday 11/12 - Worksheet on "Imperialism in East Asia"

Due Friday 11/13 - Qs for Ch'ien-lung's Letter to King George III of Great Britain

Due Monday 11/16 - Unit Test

Readings

Chinese Politics Reading

Ch'ien Lung's Letter to George III

Unit Links (Not Required)

General Links:

* Asian History Timeline

Japan Links:

* Japan History - Edo Period (1603 - 1867)
* The Structure of Feudal Japan
* Japan Reference: Samurai
* Japan: Memoirs of a Secret Empire
* The Life of Lord Tokugawa Ieyasu
* From the End of the Kamakura to the Warring States Period - 1333 to 1597 - Macro History
* Rebellion at Shimabara

China Links:

* China from Ming to Manchu - Macro History
* The Opium Wars - Richard Hooker
* Emergence Of Modern China
* China: The First Opium War
* Professor Joseph V. O'Brien's China Documents Page
* The Opium War and the Opening of China
* The Qing Empire (on All Empires - Online History Community)
* LINTON, Derek S. (1997) "Asia and the West in the New World Order. From Trading Companies to Free Trade Imperialism: The British and their Rivals in Asia", a EMBREE, T. & C. GLUCK (Ed.), Asia in Western and World History (pp. 81-116). Nova York: M.E.Sharpe.

India Links:

* Mughal India