1. The East Asian World
• From Ming to Qing
-First contacts with the West
-Portuguese arrive in 1514
-Christian missionaries in China
• Greatness of the Qing
-Reign of Kangxi (1661-1772)
-Reign of Qianlong (1736-1795)
-Qing politics
-Dyarchy: shared administrative powers
between the Chinese and Manchus

2. Changing China
• The population explosion
-role of climatic change and nomads
-70 million in 1390; 300 million in 1800
• Seeds of industrialization
-growth of manufacturing and production
-long era of peace brings commerce networks;
interstate and international trade
• Daily life in Qing China
-the family: labor intensive society, cultivation of rice
-Emperor Kangxi Sacred Edict:
-filial piety and loyalty to family
-role of women: legal status to hold property?

3. Chinese Cultural Developments
• Rise of the Chinese novel
-major departure in the form of literature
-popular in middle class urban areas
-The Golden Lotus: an exposé of the decadent
aspects of late Ming society
• Art of the Ming and Qing
-technical perfection and breathtaking quantity
-Architecture: Imperial City in Beijing
-decorative arts: carved lacquerware/enamelwork

4. Imperial City in Beijing

5. Tokugawa Japan
• The Three Great Unifiers
-what differences can we find in them?
• Opening to the West
-expulsion of the Christians
-role of Jesuits in Japan?
• The Tokugawa “Great Peace”
-Daimyo & Samurai
-Seeds of Capitalism
-land problems in the late Tokugawa period
• The Tokugawa village and culture
-the role of women: comparisons to Qing China?
-literature of the new middle class

6. Festival in the Pleasure District of
Kyoto

7. The Tokaido Road

8. 53 stations of the Tokaido Road