1. Chapter 20 East Asia in Global Perspective

2. Korean Turtle Boats
Korean Turtle Boats: This painting shows a fleet of Korean warships under the command of Admiral Yi SunShin, who repelled numerous attacks by the Japanese in the last decade of the sixteenth century. Admiral Yi is celebrated for his use of “turtle boats,” vessels whose covered decks, possibly made of iron plate, are shown in gray.
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3. East Asia and Europe Trading Companies and Missionaries
Dutch East India Company
Jesuits: Matte Ricci in China

4. East Asia and Europe, continued
Chinese Influences on Europe
Qing Empire and Jesuit scholars
European demand for Chinese goods
Japan and the Europeans
Tokugawa Shogunate
ban on Christianity
Trade and the “outer lords”

5. Great Pagoda at Kew Gardens
Great Pagoda at Kew Gardens: A testament to Europeans’ fascination with Chinese culture is the towering Pagoda at the Royal Botanic Gardens in London. Completed in 1762, it was designed by Sir William Chambers as the principal ornament in the pleasure grounds of the White House at Kew, residence of Augusta, the mother of King George III.
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6. Chronology of Korea and Japan and China and Central Asia
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Korea and Japan
China and Central Asia
1500
1543 First Portuguese contacts with Japan
1592 Japanese invasion of Korea
 1517 Portuguese embassy to China
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 1603 Tokugawa Shogunate formed
  Japanese edicts close down trade with Europe
1601 Matteo Ricci allowed to reside in Beijing 
1644 Qing conquest of Beijing
Rule of Emperor Kangxi 1689 Treaty of Nerchinsk with Russia 1691 Qing control of Inner Mongolia
1700
1702 Trial of the Forty-Seven Ronin
1792 Russian ships first spotted off the coast of Japan
Rule of Emperor Qianlong
This table shows the chronological events of Korea and Japan as well as China and Central Asia between 1500 and 1700.
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7. Comprehensive Map of the Myriad Nations
Comprehensive Map of the Myriad Nations: Thanks to the “Dutch studies” scholars and to overseas contacts, many Japanese were well informed about the cultures, technologies, and political systems of various parts of the world. This combination map and ethnographic text of 1671 graphically explores the differences among the many peoples living or traveling in Asia. The map of the Pacific hemisphere has the north pole on the left and the south pole on the extreme right of the drawing.
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8. The Imjin War and Japanese Unification
Imperial disunity and rise of the daimyo
: invasion and conquest in Korea
Impact on Korea and Ming China

9. Tokugawa Japan and Choson Korea to 1800
Japanese Reunification and Economic Growth
Centralization: Shogun at Edo
Regional lords and economic innovation
Remaking of the samurai
Japanese Elite Decline and Social Crisis
Population growth, agriculture and prices
Transition: Military to civil society
1702: Forty-seven Ronin

10. Japanese Export Porcelain
Japanese Export Porcelain: Part of a larger set made for the Dutch East India Company. Photograph courtesy Peabody Essex Museum, #83830
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11. From Ming to Qing Ming Economic Growth, 1500–1644
Stagnation after 1600
Environmental crisis and silver glut
Ming Collapse and the Rise of the Qing
External and internal threats
Pirates, Mongols and the Manchu

12. From Ming to Qing, continued
Emperor Kangxi
Stabilization of empire
Tea and Diplomacy
Qing control of trade
British East India Company
Macartney mission,
Population and Environmental Stress
More people = more stress on resources
Qing administrative weaknesses

13. Tokugawa Ieyasu
Tokugawa Ieyasu: One of Hideyoshi's allies and last of the "three unifiers." Like many warlords, Ieyasu's formal portrait is done wearing robes appropriate to his court rank, rather than in armor. This attests to the symbolic importance of the court and emperor in Kyoto even after their political power had waned.
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14. Woodblock Print of the “Forty-Seven Ronin” Story
Woodblock Print of the “Forty-Seven Ronin” Story: The saga of the Forty-Seven Ronin and the avenging of their fallen leader has fascinated the Japanese public since the event occurred in This colored woodcut from the Tokugawa period shows the leaders of the group pausing on the snowy banks of the Sumida River in Edo (Tokyo) before storming their enemy’s residence.
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15. Nineteenth-Century Children’s Carriage
Nineteenth-Century Children’s Carriage: This nineteenth century children’s carriage shows the essential changes that defined the coach. The small front wheels turn under the body of the carriage when the front axle pivots in the center. The back wheels are much larger. And the passenger compartment is suspended on springs that run from the front to the back of the vehicle.
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16. The Qing Empire, 1644–1783
Map The Qing Empire, 1644–1783: The Qing Empire began in Manchuria and captured north China in Between 1644 and 1783 the Qing conquered all the former Ming territories and added Taiwan, the lower Amur River basin, Inner Mongolia, eastern Turkestan, and Tibet. The resulting state was more than twice the size of the Ming Empire. © Cengage Learning
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17. Emperor Kangxi
Emperor Kangxi: In a portrait from about 1690, the young Manchu ruler is portrayed as a refined scholar in the Confucian tradition. He was a scholar and had great intellectual curiosity, but this portrait would not suggest that he was also capable of leading troops in battle.
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18. Climate and Diversity in the Qing Empire
Map Climate and Diversity in the Qing Empire: The Qing Empire encompassed different environmental zones, and the climate differences corresponded to population density and cultural divisions. Wetter regions to the east of the 15-inch rainfall line also contained the most densely populated 20 percent of Qing land. The drier, less densely populated 80 percent of the empire was home to the greatest portion of peoples who spoke languages other than Chinese. Many were nomads, fishermen, hunters, and farmers who raised crops other than rice. © Cengage Learning
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