1. Japan and China

2. Ming China ( )
Mongol emperors are ousted by a peasant revolt led by Taizu
Renaissance of Chinese culture and politics
Expansion of China

3. Chinese Culture
Porcelain:
Art
Silk

4. Chinese Culture - Confucianism
Who is Confucius?
Philosopher from the 5th century CE
Followers wrote the Analects – a book of his sayings

5. Chinese Culture - Confucianism
“The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”
“Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.”
“To be wealthy and honored in an unjust society is a disgrace.”

6. Chinese Culture - Confucianism
The Five Relationships and filial piety
Ruler-subject
Father-Son
Brother-brother
Husband-wife
Friend-friend

7. Chinese Politics Civil Service Exam Mandate of heaven
An exam to determine who participates in government
Instead of a patronage system
Mandate of heaven
The emperor has a mandate from heaven to be the ruler of china

8. Zheng He Chinese explorer from 14th century
Explored Around the Indian ocean until…
The Chinese government decided that they did not want any exploration happening

9. Zheng He

10. Europeans in China
Jesuit Missionaries – before missionaries, there was little contact between China and Europe. The Jesuit order used Confucianist ideas to convert the chinese people to Catholicism.

11. Chinese Rites Controversy
The Catholic Pope did not like what the Jesuits were doing, so he used a Papal Bull to demand the jesuits use more traditional methods of conversion.

12. Chinese Rites Controversy
The Kangxi emperor of china responded to the papal bull by demanding that ALL Christian missionaries leave china.

13. Tokugawa Shogunate

14. Japanese Shogunates Daimyo, heads of noble families, ruled Japan.
Around the end of the fifteenth century, the daimyo were warring with each other. There was chaos in japan.

15. Unification of Japan
Three powerful leaders struggled to unify japan: Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and Tokugawa Ieyasu.
Oda and Toyotomi were military leaders, not daimyo

16. Tokugawa Japan Tokugawa Ieyasu was the daimyo of Edo.
He took the title of Shogun in 1603 and completed the unification of japan.
The Tokugawa family held authority of Japan until 1868.
This period is know as the Great Peace

17. Tokugawa Japan
During this period there was a flourishing of Japanese culture.
Including Japanese Poetry
One of the Greatest Japanese poets was Fukuda Chiyo-ni.

18. Haikus Airing out kimonos as well as her heart is never enough.
Again the women come to the fields with unkempt hair.
Just for today using men for rice-planting.

19. Europeans in japan
The Portuguese were the first europeans to arrive in Japan.
They held up a steady trade with japan until the introduction of Jesuit missionaries
An edict in 1587 expelled all christians from japan
The only europeans allowed to trade with the japanese were the dutch until the late Nineteenth century
The dutch were allowed to trade once a year and they could only stay for 2-3 months.

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