1. Traditions and Change in East Asia

2. Ch.27 objectives:
Describe the changes and continuities in Chinese government
Explain the changes in Confucianism
Analyze changes within the Chinese economy
Explain the process of unification in Japan during the Tokugawa Era

3. Directions: Use the terms, names, and concepts provided to create a mind map of Early Modern China.
What is a mind map?
A mind map is a collection of ideas, terms, names, and concepts that are arranged in an orderly fashion to convey meaning.

4. Directions: Use the terms/names provided to create a mind map based on Ch.27.
Each term/name should be connected to at least one other term/name.
An explanation of at least two sentences should be included between each connection.
There should be an order to the arrangement of your mind map.

5. Step #1
Your first task is to figure our where the story of Early Modern China begins.

6. The Analects xiao Civil Service Exams
As teachings attributed to Confucius, the Analects were the basis of knowledge assessed during the civil service exams in China. These exams were used to find candidates to fill the larger centralized bureaucracies of the Ming and Qing governments.
As a collection of Confucius’ teachings , the Analects include lessons pertaining to the ethic of xiao or filial piety. This concept was significant because in encouraged individuals to have respect for family members and leadership, thus creating social order in Chinese society.
Civil Service Exams
xiao

7. The Analects xiao Civil Service Exams
As teachings attributed to Confucius, the Analects were the basis of knowledge assessed during the civil service exams in China. These exams were used to find candidates to fill the larger centralized bureaucracies of the Ming and Qing governments.
As a collection of Confucius’ teachings , the Analects include lessons pertaining to the ethic of xiao or filial piety. This concept was significant because in encouraged individuals to have respect for family members and leadership, thus creating social order in Chinese society.
Civil Service Exams
xiao

8. Ming Dynasty After collapse of the Yuan Dynasty
Hongwu erased Mongol influence
Study of Chinese cultural traditions
Confucian Traditions
Imperial academies and colleges
Tightly Centralized state
Great Wall project (Revived by the Ming Dynasty) 1550 miles long, feet high

10. Ming Decline & Collapse
Chinese pirates are active
Corruption, indulgence, and inefficiency led to their demise
Powerful famines strike the Ming
-Peasants suffer & rebel
-Manchus from North take over the Forbidden City - Beijing

11. Qing Dynasty (Manchu Rule)
Pastoral Nomads
Qing Dynasty (“Pure”)
Centralized State (Consolidate Tibet, Mongolia, China etc.)
Kangxi
Qianlong
Outlawed intermarriage
Conquest

13. Qianlong on Chinese Trade with England
Based on the reading on pg.736, respond to the following on your Ch.27 Critical Thinking questions and connections:
1. Use the letter to King George III as evidence to contradict the 2nd theme of the Early Modern Era?
2. What was the strongest factor motivating China to take this approach with Europe?

15. “Son of Heaven” & Bureaucrats
“Son of Heaven”: Heavenly powers to maintain order on earth (similar to divine right in Europe)
Preparation for civil service exams
Rigorous, competitive
Result=wealth & status

16. Christianity in China Matteo Ricci: Jesuit from Rome Spoke Chinese
Introduced science, literature, math etc….
Chinese convert for a short time
Strong European interest

17. Economic and Social Changes
Filial Piety: Respect towards parents (Strong)
Boys preferred over girls (female infanticide)
Footbinding extremely popular
Arranged marriages (Women could not divorce)

18. Economic and Social Changes cont…
Spanish introduced maize, sweet potatoes and peanuts population
Technology slow down
Silk, lacquerware etc…being traded
Chinese trading in SE Asia (Silver)

19. Making Christianity Chinese
The wise take pleasure in rivers and lakes, the virtuous in mountains. - Confucius

20. Unification of Japan The Tokugawa Dynasty
1500s - “Sengoku”: Country at war
Tokugawa Ieyasu unifies Japan (Bakufu)
Strict rules for Daimyo (territorial lords)
Holds daimyo’s families at Edo every other year
Japan becomes isolationist (restrictive trading)

21. Economic & Social Change
With Peace came prosperity
Cotton, silk, indigo & sake
Population
-Practiced population control
Neo-Confucianism: Filial Piety, Native learning

23. Christianity & Dutch Learning
Anti-Christian Campaign
Death by crucifixion to European missionaries
Japanese Isolationism
Traded with Dutch
Received ideas of the outside world
Maritime technology, science, medicine, astronomy, literature

24. Politics in Japan Tokugawa Shogun Entertainment & Pleasure Quarters
Floating Worlds (Ukiyo)

25. Arts in Japan (Japanese Renaissance)
Part of urban culture
Entertainment & Pleasure Quarters
Floating Worlds (Ukiyo)