East Asian History: 1300-1853 Vocabulary List

Lectures

Chinese Social History

Pre-modern Chinese Politics

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

Green Book study pages: 349-52, 424-427, 585-590.

Assignments

Due Thursday 10/27 - 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, Delhi, Xi’an, Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Guangzhou

Due Friday 10/28 - Yuan and Ming Chinabook work.

Due Thursday 11/3 - Read the Confucius' Analects questions and answer each how you think the question should be answered. (Note: when it asks what Confucius thinks, answer how you think.) Once that is done, read Confucius' Analects and answer each of the reading questions again, this time as they relate to the text.

Due Friday 11/4 - China and Population Demographics Worksheet

Due Tuesday 11/7 - Film Questions for part two of "Japan: Memoirs of a Secret Empire"

Due Thursday 11/9 - Film Questions for part three of "Japan: Memoirs of a Secret Empire"

Due Monday 11/14 - Ch'ien Lung's Letter to George III

Due Tuesday 11/15 - Worksheet on "Imperialism in East Asia"

Due Wednesday 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