1. Geopolitics: Imperial Ages of China & Japan
Chapter 11, Section 4

2. For HW (due Thursday) Reading and notes pgs 491-499.
Remember the qualities of good notes
Complete thoughts
Well-organized
Main ideas in complete sentences
Historical details to support
Analysis

3. China: Powerful Dynasties
Dynastic rule
Mandate of Heaven
Son of Heaven
Confucian based bureaucracy
Isolation
Middle Kingdom
Influence over Korea & Japan
Nomads are a constant threat
Favorable trade balance
Silk Road

4. Emperor Qian Long: Letter to George III, 1793
As your Ambassador can see for himself, we possess all things. I set no value on objects strange or ingenious, and have no use for your country's manufactures. This then is my answer to your request to appoint a representative at my Court, a request contrary to our dynastic usage, which would only result in inconvenience to yourself. It behoves you, O King, to respect my sentiments and to display even greater devotion and loyalty in future, so that, by perpetual submission to our Throne, you may secure peace and prosperity for your country hereafter.

5. The Opium Wars ( )
Europe looking to shift the balance of trade
Opium used to shift trade deficit
1821: 4,500 chests (150 lbs of extract in each) smuggled into China
1830:30,000 chests
1838: 40,000 chests
1842: 2 million of 400 million Chinese use opium
1881: 130 million of 370 million use opium
British easily defeated China, creating an internal breakdown.

6. Lin Zexu: Letter to Queen Victoria, 1839
The products that originate from China are all useful items. They are good for food and other purposes and are easy to sell. Has China produced one item that is harmful to foreign countries? I have heard that you are a kind, compassionate monarch. I am sure that you will not do to others what you yourself do not desire. The present law calls for the imposition of the death sentence on any Chinese who has peddled or smoked opium. Since a Chinese could not peddle or smoke opium if foreigners had not brought it to China, it is clear that the true culprits of a Chinese's death as a result of an opium conviction are the opium traders from foreign countries. If the merchants of your honorable country wish to enjoy trade with us on a permanent basis, they must fearfully observe our law by cutting off, once and for all, the supply of opium. Under no circumstance should they test our intention to enforce the law by deliberately violating it. You, as the ruler of your honorable country, should do your part to uncover the hidden and unmask the wicked.

7. Treaty of Nanjing (1842)
China separated into Spheres of Influence

8. JAPAN 1600-1868 Tokugawa Shogunate
Isolation, NOT stagnation
Military rule under shogun
No/very limited foreign presence

9. 1868-1889 Meiji Restoration Restored emperor Industrialized Japan
Shogun, daimyo and samurai disappear
Industrialized Japan
Needs raw materials
Copied western styles
Wants to be seen as powerful as western powers

10. 1905 Russo-Japanese War

11. 1931-1945 Militarism, Expansion and WWII

12. Post WWII Japan U.S. Occupation Democratization
Japanese Economic Miracle
Post WWII Japan

13. The Cold War (1945-1990s) JAPAN CHINA KOREA Post-war recovery
Ally to the U.S.
Democratic and capitalist
CHINA
Civil war (Nationalists vs. Communists)
Becomes a communist nation in 1949
KOREA
Divided by the USSR and U.S.
Korean War North Korea: isolated, dictatorship, poverty, nuclear threats
South Korea: growth, wealthy trade nation

14. For HW (due Thursday) Reading and notes pgs 491-499.
Remember the qualities of good notes
Complete thoughts
Well-organized
Main ideas in complete sentences
Historical details to support
Analysis