1. Welcome to China

2. Schedule
Map Warm-up
Dynastic Cycle
Textbook Work

3. Class Today Write your answers on separate paper Work with a partner DF E E E E H H H H B B B B F F F C C C J G G G G K
5 min C

4. Traditional Values 1 Confucianism
Tradition and family values to maintain stability and harmony.
Importance of respect and obedience for one’s parents, elders, rulers.
Strict moral code of conduct- respect, loyalty, obedience, hard-work, generosity and politeness
High regard for education and studying people were overstepping their boundries fighting to increase power
Meritocracy
Five Relationships of Confucianism

5. The scholar class Experts in Confucian and Buddhist texts
Exam based entry
Served as officials/civil servants of the Manchu dynasty
Announced government policies
Some corruption – money for degrees
Not based on logical reasoning (induction and deduction) appealing to authority…important person in history would have agreed with you = you win the argument

6. Traditional Values 2: Emperor worship
The emperor was divine
Mandate of Heaven (Dynastic Cycle)
He performed religious duties to ensure China’s prosperity
When does the Emperor lose heaven’s favor?
(to start the seasons…go to alter and hand motions, pots and pans…for sacrafice, face certain directions…)

7. Kow Tow
Deep bow, head touching the floor
Sign of deep respect

8. New Dynasty claims Mandate of Heaven
Dynastic Cycle
New Dynasty
Brings peace
(Re)builds infrastructure
Gives land to peasants
Protects people
New Dynasty
Old Dynasty
Problems
New Dynasty claims Mandate of Heaven
Generations go by,
New Dynasty becomes…
Problems
Floods earthquakes
Peasant revolt
Invaders Attack
Bandits raid countryside
Old Dynasty
Taxes too much
Stops protecting people
Lets infrastructure decay
Treats people unfairly
Old Dynasty loses
Mandate of Heaven

9. Conservatism
This is a very traditional system governed by customs and religion
No experience of adapting to other cultures
Belief in the superiority of Chinese civilization
Foreigners - barbarians
Peasant society- not industrialized
China was the Middle Kingdom states around China copied the Chinese Way (Like America today?)

10. The Qing/Manchu Dynasty
Manchurian conquest – 1644
Adopted Chinese political system and values
Relative tolerance of Christian missionaries, especially Catholic Jesuits

11. Tributary States
Neighboring states that paid tribute to the all powerful Middle Kingdom
Usually gave gifts to honor the Emperor
Like a Confucian younger brother showing respect to the head of the family
The leader or ambassador of the must kow tow
Korea, Nepal, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Burma
North-cold, south Mountains himalayas, east ocean, west desert

12. Problems
The empire was overextended 1

13. Arrival of European Powers
Viewed European nations as new tributary states
Europeans refused to kow tow
Failed to see the superiority of European military
Cultural misunderstanding 2

14. Arrival of the British They want new markets
They want Chinese tea and silk and porcelain
First trading post – Canton 1699
British confined to an island outside city walls

15. No interest in British manufacturing goods
Trade imbalance
British request trade liberalization (free trade) in 1793
Ships, guns and new products from the West showed the weakness of the Manchu

16. What will you tell the emperor?
Andi
Sofia
Sara
Conor
Phelan
Sam B
Daniel
Phelan
Patrick
Rebecca
Meg
Kephren
Oliver
What will you tell the emperor?

17. What will you tell the emperor?
Andreas
Adelina
Marie
Ben
Mina
Mats
Elena
Elizabeth
Stine
Paul
Joonas
Julius
Annalea
Morgan
Carl
Saheli
Brian
What will you tell the emperor?

18. What will we tell the Emperor?
Imagine you are scholar advisors (Mandarin) to the Emperor
Your group must deal with one of the following 4 situations

19. Role Play 1. Arrival of Catholic missionaries
2. Arrival of Vietnamese envoys
3. Arrival of British merchant ships
4. Arrival of German engineers

20. Geography Warm-Up List A-H on your paper identify the points (A-I)
This is practice
Winners announced Friday G D D D D A A A A E E E E H H H H B B B B F F F F C C C C G G G I
3 min

21. Western Imperialism Did it bring new ideas to China?
Were the Christian missionaries agents of positive change?
Was increasing trade with the West inevitable?
Did the West impose its ideas on the Chinese?
Did Western imperialism merely accelerate modernisation?
Contact with the West – boon or bane?
See “World of History” pp

22. Next Time: 3 episodes The Opium Wars: 1839-1842
The Boxer Rebellion: 1900
The Revolution of