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EAST ASIA

2. MING ( )
China
Center $$$$
Hongwu
Mongols

3. GREAT WALL
4th cent. b.c.
1,500 miles

4. Scholar-gentry
Landed elite
Confucian ideals
Exam system?

5. Culture
Literature
Entertainment

6. women
Status?
Goal: Male children

7. Attractive = physically weak
Marriage? Erotica?
Not universal

8. Zhenghe

9. MANCHU (QING)
N.E. Asia
1600’s-1800’s
China
Economic, global power

10. DECLINE
Famine, wars
Imperialism

12. JAPAN
Tokugawa
Warring
17th century: consolidation
Samurai

19. FLOATING WORLDS
Entertainment
Escape society

20. BROTHELS
Sex
Eroticism