East Asian Empires

1644-1911

government: ming but with ming officials still, lower taxes, modern chinese borders

economy: infrastructure

society: queue, patriarchy, female infanticide

Kangxi: confucian golden age ruler, tolerant artsy

art: landscape harmony propaganda

fall: isolationism, ethnocenterism, Taiping Rebellion -->Chinese Revolution

1368-1644

government: centralized, absolute, scholar gentry, erase Mongols

economy: Jesuit missionaries, internal trade,

Golden Age: Emperor Yongle, treasure fleets

silver: currency to stop inflation, does opposite, global trade, anger peasants (hard to pay tax)

art: cloisonne, horn carving

fall: isolationism, weak rulers, taxes

MANCHU MERCENARIES

government: absolutism, centralized, bureaucracy exams, infrastructure

economy: internal trade

society: women sequestered to home, land=power,

isolation: limit trade, forbidden city, ethnocenterism

religion: neoconfucianism

government: include Manchu and natives, lower taxes/labor

society: queue submission, female infanticide

art: cloisonne/carving to harmony propaganda

NO WALL

outsiders destroy harmony

trade bans

no foreign ideas

japan cut off

only 1 port with only dutch weapon trade allowed

literally sort through items to ensure isolation of religion and culture would not be broken

don't like bc they try to take over and are pushy

outsiders

denounce confucianism

Zheng He (Muslim enuch)

purpose: trade networks, diplomacy, show strength and power

end: costly, ethnocenterism, suspicion of foreigners, energy to mongols

1850-1864

corrupt scholar rank

From Sengoku

organization: figurehead (Kyoto) and then separate powers (Edo), Sankin Kotai

society: women in home

art: kabuki (men only), propaganda, woodpanel, ink painting, poetry

isolation: Sakoku

fall: Matthew Perry Expedition

Tokagawa policy where daimyo families were hostage in Edo to ensure loyalty

walls to keep people in lol

1850s

to open japan up to trade by force

Japan has no resistance power bc they had not been advancing

open up to enemies and humiliation

Ming

bc of inflation

opens up to trade

angers peasants